The Canal 80-9 occurrence is located along a logging road above the west side of Alberni Canal, 5 kilometres west of Port Alberni.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation volcanics which have been intruded by granodioritic rocks of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Locally, a 1.0-metre thick sheared quartz-sulphide stockwork zone hosted by silicified mafic volcanics is exposed in a road cut.

During 1993 through 2006, SYMC resources prospected the area as part of the Macktush property along the west side of the Alberni Inlet, later called the Dauntless property. During 2009 through 2011, G4G Resources completed programs of geological mapping and rock and soil sampling on the area as the Macktush Copper property. During 2012 through 2014, Nahminto Resources Ltd. completed exploration programs including limited prospecting, rock sampling, geological mapping and a satellite remote sensing survey and analysis on the Macktush group.

A similar prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling program was conducted on areas of the Macktush property for World Organics Inc. in 2015. During this program, a select outcrop grab along west side of Canal 80 Branch 9 Road from a 1.0 metre thick sheared quartz-sulphide stockwork zone hosted by silicified mafic volcanics, containing 25 per cent quartz-sulphide stockwork stringers, including 10 per cent sulphides, mainly pyrite and chalcopyrite, returned a value of 1.23 grams per tonne Au (Assessment Report 35756).