The Axel showing is located near the eastern margin of the Stikinia Terrane in south central British Columbia. The dominant rock types in the region are metabasalt, limestone and argillaceous metasediments of the Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Group. These are intruded by the dioritic to quartz dioritic Granite Mountain Pluton and the (?)Cretaceous Sheridan Creek Pluton. The Granite Mountain Pluton has been affected by regional metamorphism (greenschist facies) and deformation along with the enclosing Cache Creek Group.

The Axel showing consists of disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization within quartz diorite. The quartz diorite, probably related to the Granite Mountain Pluton, has been intruded into the Cache Creek Group volcanic rocks. At the contact between the volcanics and quartz diorite minor cupriferous skarn has formed.