The Deception Creek property is located about four kilometres north of the east end of Canim Lake, and about 500 metres north of Christopher Lake.

The property is underlain by Upper Triassic Nicola Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks. The volcanic package includes dacitic pyroclastic rocks interbedded with locally graphitic black argillite. Under the dacitic package is a more andesitic package of pyroclastic rocks. Disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite are common. Pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite occur in chloritized veins within the dacitic volcanic rocks. Trace amounts of sphalerite were found in quartz-calcite stringers in one drillhole, but zinc soil anomalies were found to be mainly associated with the unmineralized black argillite.

Pickands Mather and Company held the area as the Chris claims in 1973, and conducted a program of geological mapping and soil sampling in the search for porphyry copper and molybdenum mineralization. The W claims were staked in 1981 on the basis of anomalous copper reported in soil samples collected by Pickands Mather. Archean Engineering conducted exploration programs in 1982-1984 including reconnaissance geological mapping, stream sediment sampling, heavy mineral concentrate sampling and a VLF-EM survey. In 1985, follow-up mapping and sampling was done over VLF-EM conductors from the previous work. Archean Engineering drilled two diamond-drill holes over coincident elongate VLF-EM conductors and zinc soil anomalies. The property was subsequently dropped.