The Silver Creek showing is located from GSC Open File 637 (Occurrence 218) and is described as a silver occurrence in quartz veins (GSC Memoir 296, page 150). Geology maps show the area to be underlain by the Proterozoic and/or Paleozoic Shuswap assemblage consisting of quartzofeldspathic gneiss, biotite quartz schist, amphibolite, quartzite, marble, granite, granodiorite, pegmatite and granodioritic to tonalitic gneiss.