The Dan 8 anomaly is located on the western slopes of a small mountain to the east of Pachena Lake.

The area is underlain by carbonate rocks of the Upper Triassic Quatsino Formation, Vancouver Group and volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group. These have been intruded by Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite granitic rocks. The structural trend is northwest with easterly dips.

In 1980, Rainier Energy Resources completed a program of geochemical sampling on the Dan claims. Soil sampling returned values of 100 to 200 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 8459).