The Dan Tucker prospect is centred 7.5 kilometres southeast of the Pioneer mine.

The property originally consisted of 10 Crown-granted claims and fractions. It appears that the claims were staked in the early 1930's and were shortly thereafter acquired by Pacific Eastern Gold Mines Limited. The principal exploration work at this time was considerable trenching, an exploratory shaft and a crosscut driven southwesterly 150 metres from the main Red Hawk - Butte-I.X.L access trail. The property was dormant from 1937 to 1944 at which time Noranda Mines Limited gained control. In 1973, the property was sold to R.J. Barclay and then to J.T.M. Enterprises Limited and B.R.H. Investments Limited in 1974. Normine Resources Limited optioned the property in 1983 and completed a program of sampling and geological re-evaluation.

A structurally controlled band of serpentinite up to 30 metres wide, trending northwesterly, forms a small side-hill ridge, separating Fergusson Grouip cherty metasediments on the north from sheared volcanic rocks and gabbro (Bralorne Igneous Complex) uphill to the south. The shear zone has been the target of exploration. It is 3 to 5 metres wide and has been traced on strike for more than 300 metres. The northwest part of the zone is a quartz sericite schist containing local pyrite disseminations and concentrations of 2 to 40%; the zone is locally intruded by felsic dikes with disseminated pyrite and, in the southeast part, calcedonic quartz veining up to 0.5 metre wide. Chip samples of the quartz assayed a maximum of 2.7 grams per tonne and ranged to less than 0.1 gram per tonne gold (Paper 1995-3).