The Silver Queen occurrence lies in the southern end of the Zeballos gold camp and is located near the southeastern headwaters of Gold Valley Creek at an elevation of approximately 686 metres.

Regionally, the area is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group basaltic to rhyolitic volcanic rocks. Conformably underlying the Bonanza volcanic rocks are limestones and limy clastics of the Triassic to Lower Jurassic Parson Bay Formation (Bonanza and Vancouver groups) and Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group), and tholeiitic basalts of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group). Dioritic to granodioritic plutons of the Zeballos intrusion phase of the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite have intruded all older rocks. The Zeballos stock, a quartz diorite phase of the Eocene to Oligocene Mount Washington Plutonic Suite, is spatially related to gold-quartz veining in the area. Bedded rocks are predominantly northwest striking, southwest dipping, and anticlinally folded about a northwest axis.

Locally, a poorly exposed quartz vein with gouge, 15 to 45 centimetres wide, hosts pyrite and minor chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite mineralization. The vein and gouge zone are hosted by a biotite-hornblende granodiorite of the South Zeballos pluton (Eocene to Oligocene Mount Washington Plutonic Suite). The vein strikes north 70 degrees east and dips 80 to 85 degrees north.

In 1937, a sample assayed 1.37 grams per tonne gold (Property File - P.W. Racey [1937-12-18]: Report on the Silver Queen Group).

In 1984, a grab sample of mineralized quartz vein assayed 0.17 grams per tonne gold, 15.4 grams per tonne silver and 1.70 per cent copper (Assessment Report 12770).

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby North Star (MINFILE 092L 017) mine since the 1930s. In 1984, Golden Quadrant Resources prospected the area and completed a program of ground geophysical surveys. In 1989, a further 12.8 line-kilometres of ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys were completed on the area. In 1999, the area immediately east was prospected as the Rubicon claim.