The Silver showing is located on the east bank of the Illiance River, just east of the United Metals zone of the Illy occurrence (103P 141), about 16 kilometres northeast of Alice Arm. The area has been explored periodically since 1918 for lead, silver and zinc mineralization.

The region is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics and sediments situated on the east limb of the north-northwest trending Mount McGuire anticline. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed up to greenschist facies.

The showing consists of a shear zone, 1 to 2.4 metres wide, in green to red andesitic breccias. The zone strikes 003 degrees, dips 85 degrees west and has been traced for 475 metres. High-grade mineralization is exposed for 55 metres in the south end of the zone. The country rock has been altered to grey sericite-carbonate schist.

Mineralization is similar to that exposed in the United Metals zone (103P 141) across the Illiance River. It consists of disseminations, massive lenses and stringers of galena, sphalerite, pyrrhotite and tetrahedrite. A 1.7 metre chip sample taken across the mineralized shear zone assayed 956 grams per tonne silver, 3.35 per cent lead and 4.29 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 10115, Figure 11).

In 1919, a crosscut tunnel 12.8 metres long was driven to intersect the vein from a deep gulch above a small creek. The vein, where encountered by the tunnel, consists of about 2.5 centimetres of galena. The tunnel had crosscut the vein for about 1.8 metres and then drifted north on the hangingwall of the vein for 6 metres. About 9 metres above this tunnel, a crosscut was put in back across the vein again for 2.7 metres and continued the hangingwall drift to 12 metres. Southwest of the adit, about 20 metres, are several north trending shear zones which contain stringers of pyrite, galena and sphalerite.