The Deuce occurrence is located on the northern ridge of Chikamin Mountain, approximately 3.3 kilometres south-southeast of Zinc Bay on the Nechako Reservoir.

The area is underlain by calc-alkaline volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation (Hazelton Group) and undivided sedimentary rocks of the Middle Jurassic Smithers Formation (Hazelton Group). These have been intruded by intrusive rocks of the Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex(?) to the southeast.

Locally, flat-lying porphyritic volcanic rocks which are underlain by a 3 to 9 metre thick limy tuffaceous bed that has been altered to skarn. The skarn contains chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and magnetite mineralization in the form of pods and disseminations. Alteration minerals are reported to include calcite, massive epidote, actinolite and garnet. The mineralized zone has been exposed, by trenches, for over a length of 300 metres.

In 1965, Omineca Sixty Four Syndicate completed a program of geological mapping on the area as the Deuce 1-4 claims. In 1990 and 1991, Equity Silver Mines completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and an induced polarization survey, totalling 22.6 kilometres, on the area as the Midnight claims. In 2006, Christopher James Gold, on the behalf of Guardsmen Resources, prospected the area as the Zinc Bay property. In 2011, Jet Gold, on behalf of Guardsmen Resources, completed a program of rock sampling and airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys, totalling 476 kilometres over the Zinc Bay property area, which encompassed the Deuce showing.

The area of the reported Deuce mineral occurrence was prospected in 2012 by Guardsmen Resources Inc in an effort to confirm its location, and to collect representative examples of mineralization that comprise the showing. The actual Deuce mineral occurrence was not located. Coarse-grained chalcopyrite was identified in propylitic-altered intermediate volcanic flows where it occurs in irregular seams, small cavities and clots with chlorite, epidote, calcite and occasional magnetite. Three grab samples of this style of mineralization were collected over a lineal distance of about 150 metres. The best result was sample #1453 that graded 0.39 per cent copper, 3.3 grams per tonne silver and 0.046 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 34099).

Refer to Nickel Plate (093E 027) for details of a common area work history.