The Pacific occurrence is located west of an unnamed tributary near the headwaters of the Nitinat River.

The area, located in the Cowichan uplift, is underlain by volcanics and minor sediments of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (formerly the Myra Formation) and the Devonian Nitinat Formation (Sicker Group). Diabase and gabbro dikes and sills, considered to be coeval with the Triassic Karmutsen Formation, outcrop to the south.

Locally, three 10 metre wide mineralized shear zones hosting quartz-carbonate veins occur over a traced length of 500 metres, in northerly trending, high angle faults.

The area has been explored in conjunction with the Snapper (MINFILE 092F 543) occurrence, located to the south, since 1985. In 1988, Saga Resources completed a five hole diamond drilling program on the Pacific 1-4 claims. One hole (DDH 4) intersected a 3.35 metre gold bearing zone which assayed 7.35 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 25452).

In 1992, the Pac claim was prospected by E.W. Hayes. In 1993, Calcap Investments completed a VLF-EM program on the Pacific claims. From 1995 to 1998, G. Westgate and L. Sookochoff completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and soil geochemical surveys on the Pacific claims.