The Gold Zone (Tuzex) occurrence is located on an unnamed creek between the Nitinat and Little Nitinat rivers.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation (Vancouver Group) basalts. Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation (Vancouver Group) limestone occurs to the south, and Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite granodiorite to the north. The property appears to be located at the junction of two shear zones. Faults trending north occur along the Little Nitinat River and the rocks have undergone greenschist facies metamorphism.

Locally, a series of silicified diorite dikes has strongly altered and pyritized dacitic volcanics to a lean epidote-silica skarn carrying irregular masses of pyrite and black sphalerite.

Sampling of the showing has assayed from 2.0 to 9.0 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 26736).

The area has been explored as the Jumbo and Tuzex claims in conjunction with the Ni (MINFILE 092C 119) and Lloyd (MINFILE 092C 132) occurrences since the early 1970‘s.