The Dome Creek slate prospect is located along Provincial Highway 16, 3.8 kilometres east of its intersection with Dome Creek.

The region is underlain dominantly by rocks of the Cariboo Terrane. These consist mainly of Hadrynian to Lower Paleozoic Cariboo Group metasedimentary rocks. In this area the underlying rocks belong to the Hadrynian Yankee Belle Formation.

The slate is green in color, cleaves easily, contains no pyrite and is considered to be good building material quality. The slate is estimated to cover an area approximately 3 kilometres square with depth estimates varying between 500 and 750 metres. Overburden cover ranges from less than 1 to 7.6 metres in thickness, while surface staining due to weathering penetrates 6 to 8 metres.

Surface samples compare favourably with much deeper deposits from France and those of the eastern United States.

In 1995, with Explore B.C. Program support, Dome Creek Structural Slate intended to carry out a substantial program of site clearing and quarry preparation. Major permitting delays by the Ministry of Forests prevented work until well into the winter. As a consequence, although a 30-day Explore B.C. work deadline was granted, only a limited amount of road upgrading and site clearing could be done (Explore B.C. Program 95/96 - M49). In 1999, a program of geological mapping and one drill hole, totalling 226 metres, was completed. Drill hole DC 99-1 was drilled at an angle of 55 degrees to the north east and intersected 180 metres of slate bearing Yankee Belle formation (Assessment Report 26311).