The Dekalb 1 occurrence is located on the east bank of Quartzrock Creek approximately 4.5 kilometres north-northwest of its junction with Troutline Creek.

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

In 1981, a rock sample (1421 [DK1 R-N]) assayed 1.0 gram 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.