The Dixie occurrence is located in the saddle between Mount Dixie and a second unnamed peak, about 27 kilometres due east of the community of Atlin.

Alaskite and quartz monzonite of the Late Cretaceous Surprise Lake batholith (Surprise Lake Plutonic Suite) intrudes Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Complex (Kedahda Formation) sediments consisting of chert, argillite and limestone. Near the contact the alaskites are sheared, silicified and altered to albite and clay-sericite. The alaskites contain up to 2 per cent fluorine due to about 15 per cent topaz as identified in thin section (Assessment Report 6467).

A 30-metre-wide radioactive zone in the alaskite contains vugs and fractures with zeunerite, arsenopyrite and minor chalcopyrite. In 1976, a grab sample assayed 0.105 per cent uranium, 0.76 per cent arsenic and 0.03 per cent copper (Assessment Report 6467).

A 1976 regional stream sediment survey revealed anomalous uranium values in the vicinity of Mount Dixie, which led to staking and the 1976 discovery of the Dixie showing. In 1977, work was conducted by R.J. Bilquist and R.R. Culbert on behalf of Union Oil Company of Canada, and in 1978 by J.R. Kerr for the same owner. During these programs, geochemical, geophysical and ground prospecting were carried out.

In 2005, twelve tenures were staked over the Dixie showing due to the rising demand and price of uranium on the world market. In 2006, Aldershot Resources Ltd. carried out a spectral analysis program.