The Chrome-Vanadium showings are located 33 kilometres west- northwest of Kelowna, south of Alocin Creek. The showings are on top of a prominent northwest trending ridge. The Cameo Lake showings are located 1600 metres to the southeast in 082E16W.

In this area, Devonian to Triassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Harper Ranch Group and the Permian and older Chapperon Group are unconformably overlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. These are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks of the informally named Terrace Creek batholith. Extensive Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie the older units.

Serpentinized harzburgite in pelitic and volcanic rocks of the Chapperon Group hosts chromite and magnetite mineralization. This unit is likely a fault bounded remnant of lower crustal oceanic rocks. The unit, striking 150 degrees and dipping 85 degrees east has been traced for 9 kilometres. The pelitic rocks comprise phyllite, greenstone and mica schist.

Chromite occurs as closely spaced "kidneys", 1 to 3 centimetres in diameter, and as heavy disseminations of small angular aggregates. Several small lenses, containing 25 to 75 per cent chromite and up to 0.2 by 0.3 metres in area, are also present at the Alocin and Cameo Lake showings. Serpentine alteration is common, with lesser talc and chrysotile. Relict orthopyroxene indicates that the protolith was harzburgite. Sampling of high grade chromite pods averaged 28 per cent chromite (Assessment Report 6775). Heavy mineral sampling of stream sediments indicates the likely presence of gold and platinum mineralization.

The showings were initially staked as the Chrome-Vanadium group and prospected in the late 1920s by A.H. Raymer and Associates. Later, in the 1930s, the Chrome Ridge Mining Syndicate held claims that covered the better part of the serpentinite containing chromite mineralization. During that time a small amount of hand trenching, sampling and prospecting was done. In 1956, Noranda Exploration Company Ltd. did an extensive geological mapping, sampling, prospecting and aeromagnetic surveys of the area. By 1977, Nicola Copper Mines Ltd. and Buccaneer Resources Ltd. did further geological mapping, ground magnetometer surveys, soil sampling and trenching. At that time the Alocin and Cameo Lake showings were named. In 1986, the Laramie Mining Corp. collected heavy mineral samples. The showings are presently covered by the Jack 5 claim, owned by Rea Gold Corp.

Northwest along strike, prospecting on the Bart claims of Mineta Resources Ltd. has outlined the extension of the serpentinite and further probable chromite mineralization (W. Kovacevic, personal communication, 1990).