The Rod occurrence is located on the west side of Roderick Creek, approximately 2 kilometres south of South French Bar Creek and at an elevation of 1430 metres.

The area is underlain by marine sedimentary rocks of the Lower Cretaceous Jackass Mountain Group, which have been intruded by sills and dikes of Tertiary to Cretaceous feldspar porphyry and quartz porphyry. The Jackass Mountain Group consists of conglomerate, siltstone and sandstone, generally trending to the north or northeast and dipping to the west.

Locally, gossanous greywackes and argillites host narrow, 3 to 5 millimetre, quartz veinlets with disseminated to small clots of pyrite, pyrrhotite with minor sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite. Limonite and sericite alteration is also noted.

In 1988, a talus sample (16655) assayed 2.4 grams per tonne gold, while an in-situ sample (16653), located 50 metres away, assayed 0.45 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 17653). These samples were taken from an area on the east side of Roderick Creek, south east of the main occurrence.

In 1991, percussion drilling yielded values of up to 0.605, greater than 1.0 and 0.695 gram per tonne gold from hole 1-1 at 4.8, 5.4 and 6.0 metres, respectively. Another hole (1-3) yielded values of greater than 1.0 gram per tonne gold with 3.0 and 2.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.143 and 0.127 per cent lead, from depths of 7.2 and 7.8 metres, respectively; while a further six samples from 8.4 to 11.4 metres yielded an average of 0.28 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22361).

In 1996, a sample (MM96-24) taken across 70 metres of scree, located a few hundred metres west, with oxidized propylitic altered sandstone/siltstone, assayed 0.245 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 25042).

In 1988, Levelland Energy Resources completed a program of rock, soil and silt sampling on the area as the Rod claims. In 1991, Olympus Development completed a percussion drilling program, totalling 170.0 metres, in 10 holes on the area as the Rainbow property. In 1993, a lone, 50.3 metre diamond drill hole, was completed. In 1996, Navarre Resources completed a program of rock, silt and soil sampling on the area as the RC claim group. During 2006 through 2011, the area was prospected and sampled as the Dave claims of the Rod-Stir project. In 2012 and 2013, programs of geochemical sampling, geological mapping and a minor 1.5 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey were completed on the area as the Lind claims.