n. an indication of the presence of minerals in sufficient quantity to suggest a possible site for a mine.
See also: showing
- 1958  It was a bedrock show with the gravel loaded with the coarsest gold Bill or anyone else had ever seen.
- 1964  "Would like to dispose of a molybdenum show--cash quit claim--staked last fall. This show is written up in the report "Molybdenum in B.C.," and is located . . . at Malaka, a whistle-stop just out of Sicamous. . . ."