The Canyon Creek showings occur in an area of sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group that are intruded by Eocene plutonic rocks of the Coast Plutonic Complex. In the vicinity of Canyon (Ellison) Creek, the Black Bear and Daily Boy showings were found to occur within the hornfelsed contact between quartz diorite and sedimentary and volcanic rocks.

The Black Bear showing consists of a 60 centimetre wide quartz vein, located along the selvage of a diorite-porphyry dyke, that contains auriferous pyrite and pyrrhotite.

The Daily Boy showing is located within a gulch adjacent to Canyon Creek, and consists of several mineralized veins within silicified and hornfelsed sediments. The altered slates, argillites and quartzites are characterized by high concentrations of disseminated pyrite and on weathering they are covered by a deep brown crust of limonite. The sediments are crosscut by a complex of lamprophyric dykes of variable width. The mineralized quartz veins within the gulch host pyrite, pyrrhotite with minor sphalerite and galena.

Reconnaissance prospecting completed over the northeast portion of the Deb property in 1989 located a number of quartz veins, stringers and silicified areas. Best results from samples were 0.15 gram per tonne gold, 24.0 grams per tonne silver, 3.7 per cent lead, and 1.43 per cent zinc from intensely altered quartz containing 20 per cent sulphides, including pyrite, galena, minor chalcopyrite and trace pyrrhotite (Assessment Report 19682).

Work History

A number of claims were located on Canyon Creek about 1905 and considerable prospecting was done at that time. The main showings were on the Black Bear and Daily Boy claims. No development work of note was done on either of these prospects.

The 1989 property exploration program of Backer Resources Ltd on teh Deb North property consisted of helicopter-supported reconnaissance prospecting, geological mapping, and geochemistry. A total of 28 rock, 1 heavy mineral, and 2 stream silt samples were collected. The Canyon Creek showings were thought by Backer Resources to exist in the northeast corner of the Deb property. And though most of the Backers exploration work occurred in that vicinity no evidence of the original showing were found. Andesites and aragillite were sampled in 1989.

In 2006 and 2007, Hathor Exploration Ltd. completed a 7228.7 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the New and Hell claims of the Iskut project. In 2008, Max Minerals Ltd. examined the property.