The Gard showing is located at 1000 metres elevation, along Moh Creek 5 kilometres east of Mount Gardiner on the northwest shores of Bute Inlet. There is no record of previous mineral exploration in the Moh Creek area. In 1991 and 1992, J. Page of Southgate Resource Group Inc. contracted Westex Exploration Ltd. to conduct an exploration program on the Gard claims.

The Moh Creek area of Bute Inlet is located in the Coast Plutonic Complex which forms all the mainland area in the Bute Inlet map sheet (092K). Intrusions of the Coast Plutonic Complex range from quartz diorite to granodiorite. Sinuous bands of pre-existing volcanic and sedimentary rocks form pendants, which are remnants of calcalkaline volcanic centres. In the Bute Inlet area, the pendants form a series of low grade metamorphic, northwest striking sinuous bands which help define the regional fabric. These pendants have been correlated with the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group. Recent work, however, has defined a general trend from Middle Cretaceous in the southwest to Middle Paleozoic in the northeast of the Bute Inlet area. Zircon age dates in the Fawn Point area indicate a Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous age of pendants.

The Gard showing is underlain by a pendant of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks, extending from Bute Inlet in the southeast to Mount Gardiner in the northwest. Metavolcanic rocks exposed on the east side of Moh Creek valley include greenstone and rhyolite that are overlain by green tuff, lithic tuff and a thick sequence of thinly laminated, fine grained metasediments. Chlorite schist, phyllite, shale and conglomerate comprise metasediments. The metasedimentary rocks generally strike between 120 and 165 and dip 80-90 degrees northeast.

Metavolcanics and metasediments have been intruded by post- pendant quartz feldspar porphyry and fine grained, plagioclase bearing diabase.

In 1991, several grab rock samples taken from the Gard 2 and 11 claims yielded anomalous base and precious metal values. In most cases, however, these samples were taken from small, localized mineralization associated with intrusive contacts. Sample 8GRD-R90-P41 yielded 3.39 per cent zinc, 2.51 per cent lead, 0.10 per cent copper, 20.8 grams per tonne silver and 1.64 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21585). Sample 8GRD-R90-P48 yielded 1.19 per cent zinc, 0.22 per cent lead, 0.03 per cent copper and 7.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 21585). Sample 8GRD-R90-P53 yielded 0.05 per cent zinc, 1.11 per cent lead, 0.02 per cent copper, 15.0 grams per tonne silver and 3.25 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21585).