The Aug occurrence is in the western head waters of Negro Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1900 metres.

The area is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the mid-Proterozoic Aldridge and Creston formations (Purcell Supergroup). These formations consist of siltstone, argillite and quartzite, regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies, and have been intruded by gabbro to diorite sills and dikes of the mid-Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions.

Locally, chlorite and albite-altered siltstone and argillite form the hanging wall of the Baldy fault. The fault hosts a 3-metre-wide hematite breccia cut by erratic quartz vines with limonite, pyrite and specular hematite.

In 1996, previous sampling of the zone is reported to have yielded up to 15 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24458).

In 1983, the area was prospected and mapped as the Noke claims (Assessment Report 11465). In 1996, the area was prospected and sampled as the Aug 1-6 claims by Craig Kennedy (Assessment Report 24458). Later the same year, Abitibi Mining Corp. completed two diamond drill holes, totalling 103.7 metres, on the Mt. Bigattini property, near the plotted showing (Assessment Report 25135). In 2007, Kootenay Gold prospected the area as the DB claim (Assessment Report 29716).

In 2012, PJX Resources Inc. had an airborne electromagnetic survey conducted over their Eddy North target area, part of their larger contiguous Purcell Block (Assessment Report 33667). Some 561.8 line-kilometres of survey data were recorded and compiled over the claim group. MINFILE occurrences encompassed by the survey included Running Wolf (082FNE059), Skay (082FSE175), Aug (082FSE176), Zeus (082GSW071), and Zeus (Gold Zone) (082GSW078).

In 2012, PJX Resources Inc. drilled 1 hole (ED12-01) 300 metres northeast of the Aug showing (Assessment Report 33860). Abundant disseminated zones and thin laminations of pyrrhotite and lesser pyrite occurred throughout the hole but only thin veins, less than one centimetre thick, hosted elevated concentrations of base or precious metals described as fine sphalerite and lesser galena or chalcopyrite.