The Aurum property is located on the Birkenhead River and the southwestern slopes of an adjacent mountain.

The area is underlain by a northwesterly trending roof pendant of Upper Triassic Cadwallader Group metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks adjacent to a pluton of hornblende quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. A smaller body of pyroxene diorite is exposed within the area of the prospect.

The Birkenhead Gold showing was discovered by P. Newman in 1987. In 2007 through 2011, Homegold Resources completed various programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and prospecting.

The main showing consists of three lenticular quartz veins cutting phyllitic tuff or very fine grained sedimentary rocks. Mineralization within the veins consists of blebby to disseminated pyrite with pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena and molybdenite. A grab sample of vein material exposed during preliminary hand trenching graded 15.2 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17537). In 2008, a sample of milky white quartz containing pyrite and chalcopyrite returned 1.5 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 30290).