The Star of the West showing is located 5 kilometres south of Nelson on Lot 1311. The claim was Crown Granted in 1897 and workings comprise a 6-metre-long adit, a 4-metre trench and a few small pits.

The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation, Rossland Group which have been intruded by granodiorite and quartz monzonite of the Middle to late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions. The volcanic rocks comprise augite porphyry, augite porphyry basalt flows, flow breccias and plagioclase crystal tuffs.

The New Bicycle or main showing consists of slightly crosscutting pyrite-galena-sphalerite-magnetite veins or stringers hosted by dark green, sheared, chloritized tuffs. The tuffs strike 140 degrees and dip 50 to 60 degrees northwest.

The veins or stringers are up to 1 centimetre wide and locally contain massive, fine-grained quartz or massive fine-grained pyrite with some limonite staining. The veins appear stratabound locally but are accompanied by anomalous geochemical values for mercury which may indicate an epithermal environment. The veins carry insignificant gold and low amounts of silver. Grab samples from the 4-metre trench at the main showing assayed up to 3.63 per cent zinc and 2.68 per cent lead with up to 96.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.125 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14064).