The Tofino Creek occurrence is located on the western side of Tofino Creek, approximately 700 metres north of the creek mouth.

The Deer Bay area is underlain by the pre-Jurassic Westcoast Complex, an assemblage of greenstone, limestone, diorite, granite, granodiorite and basalt porphyry.

At the occurrence, greenstone along the footwall of a thin limestone band is skarn altered and contains chalcopyrite, malachite and magnetite. In 1988, two grab samples (954 and 955) of massive sulphides from a muck pile assayed 5.2 and 4.3 per cent copper with 58.9 and 29.7 grams per tonne silver, respectively (Assessment Report 17284).

Approximately 120 metres to the north, gently west-dipping greenstone located at the hanging wall of the limestone, is partly altered to garnet-diopside-pyroxene-amphibole skarn and contains magnetite and chalcopyrite. Diorite (dike?) in the greenstone is slightly altered and contains disseminated molybdenite.

About 60 metres south of the first showing, minor disseminated molybdenite occurs in skarn-altered diorite and granodiorite.

Immediately east of Tofino Creek, massive magnetite and associated chalcopyrite is exposed in blasted outcrop in an area of former workings. An intrusive dike in the area hosts molybdenite. In 1998, three samples (978, 979 and 980) from the former workings andexposed outcrop assayed from 3.0 to 9.6 per cent copper and 14.4 to 53.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17284).

During 1988 through 1991, Stage Exploration Ltd., later Stag Holdings, completed programs of geochemical sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the area as apart of the Deer Bay property.