This prospect is 1 kilometre east-northeast of the confluence of Thynne Creek and its southward-flowing tributary and 16 kilometres north-northwest of Tulameen.

The Totem Pole deposit is hosted in andesite of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. A granodiorite stock of Late Triassic to Early Jurassic age intrudes the Nicola Group immediately to the north.

The occurrence is comprised of a shear zone containing breccia bands, with fragments up to 15 centimetres in diameter, interbanded with andesite. Mineralization occurs where the shear is cut by silicified crossfaults and consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite, in quartz and calcite stringers. These sulphides occur in two zones 0.30 to 1.2 metres wide.

Lucky Tod Mining Company shipped 25 tonnes of ore grading 30 grams per tonne silver and 4.0 per cent copper in 1916. The deposit was more recently trenched and soil sampled by Pan Arctic Explorations Ltd. in 1973.