The Crow occurrence is located on Onad Creek at about 250 metres in elevation, and 25 kilometres northeast of Tofino, B.C.

The Deer Bay area is underlain by the pre-Jurassic Westcoast Complex, an assemblage of greenstone, diorite, granite, granodiorite and basalt porphyry. Associated with the greenstone are lenses of white to grey limestone, striking northwest and dipping steeply northeast. The greenstone has been intruded by coarse-grained, dark diorite sills.

Skarn alteration occurs in varying amounts in greenstone, intrusive and at limestone contacts. It consists of garnet, epidote, pyroxene, amphibole and calcite.

At the main Crow occurrence, an open cut has been driven on 1.5 metres of massive magnetite, containing minor chalcopyrite and pyrite, along the north contact of a vertically dipping greenstone dike in limestone. At an elevation 12 metres below the open cut, an adit cuts only greenstone and limestone, but about 4.5 tonnes of magnetite is stockpiled at the portal. A second adit, 15 metres lower, has been driven in barren limestone, greenstone and diorite.

Approximately 300 metres to the west, a small open cut exposes two 1.5 metre bands of massive magnetite, striking southwest through diorite and granodiorite.

About 200 metres east of the main Crow open-cut are four magnetite occurrences in limestone, greenstone and skarn, spread out over an area of approximately 150 metres. At the first, a 3.0 metre adit exposes 0.9 to 1.8 metres of magnetite in limestone and skarn. At the second occurrence, a small open cut exposes 0.3 metres of magnetite, with minor chalcopyrite and malachite in skarn. The third occurrence consists of nearly massive pyrrhotite-bearing magnetite, exposed over 9.0 by 4.5 metres in a (Onad?) creek. The last occurrence comprises 0.6 metres of massive magnetite in greenstone near a tongue of limestone.

During 1988 through 1991, Stage Exploration Ltd., later Stag Holdings, completed programs of geochemical sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the area as part of the Deer Bay property. A sample (968) massive sulphides from the ore dump of an adit assayed 5.9 per cent copper, 0.65 per zinc, 56.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.765 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17284).