The SUE showing is located on the Fraser Plateau, 3 kilometres east of Highway 97, approximately 29 kilometres north-northeast of Quesnel.
The area is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic hornfelsed sediments and lesser andesitic volcanic rocks of the Takla (or Nicola) Group. Cretaceous granite and alkali feldspar granite intrusive rocks associated with the Naver Pluton and associated satellite bodies intrude the strata in the area of the Sue showing. The hornfels contains up to 5 per cent disseminated pyrite/pyrrhotite with traces of chalcopyrite. Quartz veining occurs locally.
Mineralization observed by Noranda during their program consisted of pyrite, pyrrhotite and trace chalcopyrite. Pyrrhotite plus/minus pyrite occurs as disseminated grains, small grain aggregates, replacements of mafic minerals and as fracture coatings, commonly in andesites and locally in the argillites. Pyrrhotite plus/minus pyrite also occurs in small stockwork zones, with associated chlorite-epidote-si1ica alteration, in both the andesites and the argillites. Chalcopyrite was most commonly observed within these alteration zones.
Prior to 1984, no work in the immediate area of the Sue claim is documented. In 1984, Noranda Exploration conducted a regional airborne EM-Magnetometer survey in the area of the Sue property. The airborne survey detected an anomaly on the Sue property and as a result, Noranda followed later in 1984 with a geophysical, geological and geochemical evaluation program on the property. In 1984, a 4.4 kilometre x 1 km control grid was established on the property. Crosslines were located at 200m intervals and extend 500 metres on either side of the line. In 1987, some eastern crossline lines were extended by Noranda, soil sampled and mapped. A total of 194 soil samples and 3 rock samples were collected.
The Dun property was staked by Skygold Ventures Ltd in 2006 to cover the inferred source of a strong RGS stream sediment gold anomaly (620 parts per billion Au) located on Meadowbank Creek. The claims, in part, cover the Sue and MBC claims that were held by Noranda in the 1980s. In 2007, 390 soil samples were collected along 8 north-south lines spaced 200 metres apart. The sample interval along each line was 50 metres. A few anomalous to strongly anomalous gold values were identified which form a general cluster in the northern part of the grid area. Copper showed a broad, distinct zone of weakly anomalous values that extend across the southwest corner of the grid area. In January 2011, Skygold changed its name to Spanish Mountain Gold Ltd. and conducted a 430 soil sampling program to target vein-hosted gold deposits on the property. A gold anomaly was discovered in the southeast corner of the soil grid, defined by soils exhibiting greater than 20 parts per billion gold.
