The BEATTON anomaly is centred on an aero-magnetic high on the west side of Beatton River, just north of Indian Creek, 20 kilometres northeast of Fort St. John, B.C.

The area was initially targeted and explored for potential kimberlite host by Tul Petroleums Ltd. from 1996 to 1999. The Beatton River-Indian Creek area was prospected and sampled, noting the occurrence of garnet covered beaches downstream of Indian Creek. TUL concluded that mantle derived garnets and pyroxenes, chromite and illmenite and kimberlitic indicator and diamond inclusion field classified minerals, found localised at Lucky Jim samples LJB-1 and LJI-1 contained mantle materials, microprobed as diamond indicator minerals. An aero-magnetic survey, ground magnetometer survey and air photo investigations determined a coincident magnetic high and prominent circular feature in the lower Indian Creek valley (Assessment Reports 25131 and 25648).

In 2002 Diamant Resources Ltd. obtained seven stream sediment samples from the anomaly. Five out of those seven samples were processed and observed for kimberlitic indicator minerals. Of the five samples observed, four yielded kimberlitic indicators. Sample 119009 (from Indian Creek stream bed) yielded three P-pyropes (or Picro-illmenite) and three Chrome Diopsides, which may be indicative of a proximal or distal source (Assessment Report 26999).