The Surprise occurrence is located west of Vega Creek and about 3 kilometres north of Uslika Lake, approximately 52 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

At the showing, volcanic sediments, sandstones, siltstones and cherty argillites of the Permian Lay Range assemblage are strongly brecciated and cut by a quartz-ankerite vein, 10 to 15 centimetres wide, containing pyrite and stained with malachite. The vein strikes 230 degrees and dips 13 degrees northwest. In 1991, a sample taken at this showing assayed 0.75 per cent copper (Open File 1992-11, Sheet 2, Map Number 18).

The showing was discovered during the 1991 regional mapping program of the British Columbia Geological Survey.