The Silver Queen occurrence is located at 1615 metres elevation above sea level on Tenderfoot Creek, 2 kilometres northwest of Clark Peak, in the Slocan Mining Division.

Regionally, the area lies within the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. The occurrence is within the Kootenay Arc, a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the Paleozoic Lardeau and Milford groups. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoid plutons.

The Tenderfoot Creek area is mainly underlain by grey-green mica schist of the Broadview Formation and by grey phyllitic rocks and marble of the Milford Group. The Mesozoic Mobbs Creek and Rapid Creek quartz monzonite stocks are exposed to the west of the occurrence. All rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies. Rocks of the Milford Group have also been affected by thermal metamorphism (Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 193).

No geological description could be located for this occurrence. The property is probably underlain by grey-green mica schist of the Broadview Formation of the Lardeau Group.