The Rina 3 claim is located on the western side of Piggott Creek, approximately 31 kilometres northwest of Courtenay.

The area is underlain by block- faulted Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation volcanics (Vancouver Group), which are unconformably overlain by Upper Cretaceous Comox Formation sediments (Nanaimo Group). The Karmutsen rocks consist of very gently dipping, thick amygdaloidal basaltic flows with interbedded pillow lavas, pillow breccias and very minor intercalated tuffaceous beds. Comox Formation rocks are composed of fairly flat- lying conglomerates and sandstones with interbedded siltstone and shale.

Locally, there is a north easterly trending ankeritic zone, known as the Valentine zone, which approximately 1000 metres long by several tens of metres wide.

From 1984 to 1986, Iron River Resources Ltd. completed exploration programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling. Sampling of the anomalous zone returned values up to 5 parts per billion gold and 1.5 parts per million silver (Assessment Report 13601). In 1986, further sampling of the area identified anomalous soil copper values, in the range of 600 to 900 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 15690).