The Road zone is located in a quarry on the road south of Patterson Lake.

This area is underlain by Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation volcanics of the Vancouver Group. The rock is a massive dark green volcanic with occasional chlorite and epidote-filled amygdules.

Locally, a zone of very weathered bornite is localized along two parallel shears 40 centimetres apart. Each shear is approximately 10 centimetres wide. This zone is vertical and trends north. The rock is extremely chloritized and malachite staining is abundant. One sample assayed 3.12 per cent copper and 31.54 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 16239). Gold values were negligible.

In 1986, Corporation Falconbridge Copper geologists conducted a one day property examination on the claims. In 1987, Dellaterra Resources Ltd. optioned the claims and completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical analyses of stream sediments, soils and rock, and geophysical testing by magnetometer, VLF-EM and Induced Polarization. In 1989 and 1991, S.T.S. Resources explored the area. In 2012, a program of prospecting and rock sampling was completed on the area as the Old Joe property.