The Deserters Range occurrence is located in Deserters Range, north of Chowika Creek, about 111 kilometres north of the community of Germansen Landing.

Pelites, sandstones, quartzites, marbles, and amphibolites comprise the Upper Proterozoic Misinchinka Group, which outcrops in the northern Rocky Mountains. Metamorphosed Misinchinka Group rocks are exposed in the Deserters Range, east of the Rocky Mountain Trench. North of Chowika Creek, pelitic strata in the kyanite zone contain abundant garnets, 5 to 8 millimetres in diameter, and, locally coarse blades of kyanite (Evenchick, 1985).