The Shaw showing is located east of Quesnel Forks at the confluence of the Quesnel and Cariboo rivers. The geology of the region consists of an Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic assemblage of sedimentary and volcanic rocks, correlative with the Nicola Group. The showing is underlain mainly by basalt which is interpreted as being part of the lower mafic volcanic assemblage which overlies older sedimentary rocks further to the east.

The basalt is cut by small quartz veins which contain galena, sphalerite and pyrite mineralization.

The Shaw showing is within a larger property located immediately adjacent to the village of Likely, and extends from Boswell Lake in the south to Kangaroo Creek in the north. Quesnel Lake and Quesnel River form the approximate southwestern boundary to the property. The area is readily accessible from Highway 97 at 150 Mile House by 75 kilometres of all-weather paved and gravel road to Likely. All-weather gravel roads lead from Likely to Quesnel Forks, Keithley Creek and Spanish Lake through the central portion of the property. Numerous logging roads, which vary from good two wheel-drive roads to overgrown walking trails, provide ready access to most of the property.

In 1986, a varied program of grid establishment, fill-in soil sampling, geological mapping and sampling, excavator trenching and geochemical rock sampling was carried out in several areas on the large (520 units) Cariboo-Likely Project of Mt. Calvery Resources.