The Sockeye (L.528) occurrence is located near the southern shore of Easy Inlet, north of Jansen Lake.

Rocks in the area of the showing are mainly volcanics of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group, consisting of porphyritic and fragmental andesites and dacites. These have been intruded by quartz diorite dikes or quartz diorite porphyry, and by numerous andesitic dikes related to the Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The volcanics, along their contacts with the intrusive diorite and andesite, have been altered and replaced resulting in well-defined masses of quartz-sericite, quartz-alunite and quartz-pyrophyllite. Quartz makes up from 20 to 50 per cent of the quartz-pyrophyllite rock, with sericite up to 8 per cent, some pyrite (weathering to limonite) and kaolin. Irregular streaks and thin beds of quartz-sericite rock occur in the pyrophyllite zones. The rock has been more or less sheared, producing in places zones filled with soft gouge composed largely of quartz, pyrophyllite and kaolin, in other places fault breccia consisting of fragments of quartz-pyrophyllite, kaolin and iron oxides. The pyrophyllite is in the form of very fine microscopic flakes and is of the compact, massive type.

On the Sockeye claim, pyrophyllite is exposed for 76 metres along strike, with widths up to 46 metres. On the adjoining Curtis claim, to the east, there is an exposure measuring 46 by 30 by 9 metres. The intervening 550 metres between the two exposures is obscured by overburden. If the deposit proves to be continuous it would contain several thousand tonnes. The quartz content is about 45 per cent, and at a depth of 2 metres, the rock is fresh and free from iron stain (Canmet Report 803, pages 131-135).

The area has been explored in conjunction with the Monteith Bay (MINFILE 092L 343) geyserite deposit.