The Slide Creek occurrence is located south of Slide Creek, a tributary of Raffuce Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1000 metres.

The area occurs on the eastern edge of the Britannia- Indian River pendant, which hosts the volcanogenic deposits of the Britannia camp (MINFILE 092GNW003). The Britannia-Indian River pendant is mainly a calc-alkaline, sub-aqueous volcanic and sedimentary sequence of felsic to intermediate pyroclastics, flows, cherts, argillites and greywackes. The entire pendant has been classified as part of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group. Cenozoic to Mesozoic Coast Plutonic Complex intrusives surround portions of the stratified rocks, creating screens or pendants. These bodies are oriented north westerly throughout the Coast complex. Pliocene to recent Garibaldi Group basaltic dikes and sills intrude both the pendant and plutonic rocks.

The occurrence is underlain by andesite, rhyolite and rhyodacite porphyries, tuffs and breccias of the Gambier Group, which are locally sheared into quartz sericite and quartz chlorite schist. Certain highly silicified sections of the shear zones carry small amounts of chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena. Locally, nearly massive chalcopyrite with smaller amounts of sphalerite and galena occur in discontinuous lenses.

In 1948, a sample (M36) assayed 3.4 grams per tonne silver and 1.2 per cent copper over 0.9 metre (Property File - Victor Dolmage (1953-05-15): McVicar Copper-Zinc Deposits, Raffuse Creek, Squamish, BC).

In 1978, select grab samples (1451 and 1452) assayed up to 3.59 per cent copper and 33.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 7021).

In 1982, a grab sample (46555) assayed up to 0.49 per cent copper, 5.9 per cent zinc, 3.03 per cent lead and 32.2 grams per tonne silver over a 5 centimetre width; while a 0.5- metre wide chip sample (46566) assayed 3.39 per cent copper and 53.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11121). Another chip sample (46564), taken approximately 200 metres further up the creek, assayed 0.24 per cent copper, 1.75 per cent lead, 2.09 per cent zinc and 13.3 grams per tonne silver over 0.75 metre (Assessment Report 11121).

In 1987, two rock samples (25474 and 25475) assayed up to 0.12 gram per tonne gold, 38.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.355 per cent copper and 0.267 per cent zinc, while a rock sample (25505), taken from a lower road approximately 250 metres to the east, assayed 0.51 gram per tonne gold, 51.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.628 per cent copper, 1.47 per cent lead and 4.42 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 11642)

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the McVicar (MINFILE 092GNW006) occurrence to the south. During 1978 through 1983, Texasgulf and later Kidd Creek Mines completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and ground and airborne geophysical surveys. In 1982 and 1983, Stackpool Minerals completed programs of geological mapping, rock, silt and soil sampling and an airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Gin claim. In 1987, Kidd Creek Mines completed a program of rock sampling and geological mapping.