The Quartz Creek occurrence is located on steep bluffs on the north side of the creek, near its headwaters. The creek flows westward into Surprise Lake, approximately 35 kilometres northeast of the community of Atlin.

The creek is located well within the Late Cretaceous Surprise Lake batholith (Surprise Lake Plutonic Suite) which covers about 1100 square kilometres northeast of Atlin. This alaskitic body has intruded into Upper Paleozoic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Cache Creek Complex.

The area was prospected for uranium in 1979 and geologists at that time noted that the Quartz Creek bluffs are locally limonitic, manganiferous, and in places exhibit a pale green alteration. Traces of fluorite are present as well as minor amounts of chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and wolframite. No uranium is noted along this part of Quartz Creek.

In 1978, the D & D claims were acquired after the release of the Uranium Reconnaissance Program geochemical data and preliminary prospecting was carried out. In 1979, a small grid was established, and a radiometric survey was completed using a GlS4 spectrometer and 39 soil samples were collected at 100-metre intervals.

In 2008, Future Metals Inc. conducted stream and soil sediment sampling in the area as the Atlin Horse property.