The Dekalb 2-3 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1520 metres on a northwest-facing slope of a west-flowing tributary of Quartzrock Creek and approximately 10 kilometres east of the historical community of Cassiar.

Regionally, the area is underlain by cherts, greywacke, greenstones and mafic volcanics of the Upper Paleozoic Sylvester Allochthon (Slide Mountain Complex) and serpentinite ultramafic rocks of the Permian Blue Dome fault zone (Slide Mountain Complex), which are folded and faulted and intruded by a small hornblende-feldspar porphyry stock.

Locally, quartz-carbonate breccia with altered volcanic fragments and pyrite hosts gold values.

In 1981, a rock sample (1441 [DK1 on creek]) assayed 4.0 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 10170).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Lucky Shot (MINFILE 104P 041) occurrence and a complete exploration history can be found there.