The Telluric gold-quartz vein and workings are located approximately 50 kilometres northeast of Savona, in the upper reaches of the Deadman River east of the Vidette mine. The precise location of the Telluric workings is not known, however, Minister of Mines Special Report 24 (1936) describes them as being at the west end of Willow Lake, a small lake at an elevation of 4300 feet (1310 metres), 15 1/2 miles (25 kilometres) eastward by road from the Vidette mine (092P 086). A small lake called Tuleric Lake shown on recent maps is assumed to be Willow Lake. The Vidette mine is located at the north end of Vidette Lake and is accessible on a good-quality gravel road north from the Trans-Canada Highway, 7.4 kilometres west of Savona.

Special Report 24 (1936) describes the underground workings as following a quartz vein hosted by amphibolite. The workings consist of a 15-metre shaft with a 7.3 metre-crosscut and drift which follows the vein for 40 metres to the face. The vein strikes 295 degrees, dipping 65 to 70 degrees northeast. The vein is 1.2 metres in width and contains small amounts of pyrite, sphalerite and tetrahedrite, with some disseminated pyrite in the walls. One 20 centimetre sample assayed 10.3 grams per tonne gold. On surface, 16 pits and trenches have traced the vein disontinuously for 160 metres. On surface, the host amphibolites are buff weathering, and biotite and carbonate alteration are evident. Hostrocks are mafic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The Nicola rocks are intruded by granitic rocks (quartz diorite and granodiorite) of the Triassic to Jurassic Thuya batholith (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 363).

In 1985, select samples of dump material are reported to have yielded from 1.050 to 14.600 grams per tonne gold, while a surface chip sample assayed 3.4 grams per tonne gold over 1 metres from an outcrop located approximately 80 metres southeast of the mine dump (Carpenter, T.H. (2018-07-06): Technical Report on the Black Duck Property with Recommendations for Further Exploration).

Work completed prior to 1936 is described in Special Report 24 (1936). The property was staked and prospected by Mr. Michael Dickens in 1987 (Assessment Report 16207). This was followed in 1989 by preparation of 2.7 kilometres of grid and a magnetic and VLF-EM survey (Assessment Report 19051).

In 2006, a bark sampling program was completed on the area by Madrona Ventures. The following year, a soil sampling program was completed.

In 2018, Karam Minerals Inc. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling, prospecting and a ground magnetometer survey on the area as the Black Duck property.