The Red Bluffs showing is located about 6 kilometres northeast of the confluence of Dortatelle Creek and the Asitka River.
The Red Bluffs area is underlain by Upper Triassic Takla Group volcanics. These volcanics are bounded to the east by the north-trending Dortatelle fault and to the west by the Ingenika fault. Locally, the area is underlain by andesitic volcaniclastics, predominantly crystal and lapilli tuffs, interlayered with minor andesite flows. Minor feldspar porphyry dikes intrude the volcaniclastics. The general stratigraphic trend is north-south but this is complicated by intense polyphase deformation. The regional metamorphic grade is greenschist facies, locally overprinted by biotite grade thermal metamorphism.
In 1984, BP Resources staked the Goldway 1-8 claims over an area drained by gold anomalous creeks sampled during a regional geochemical program conducted in the mid 1970s. Preliminary geological mapping and geochemical sampling was carried out. A total of 141 rock chips, 388 soils, 82 talus fines and 41 stream silt samples were collected. BP worked at Mariposite Creek (Dort 2 (094D 204)) and Red Bluffs which resulted in the location of two zones of anomalous gold in talus fines samples, both of which are associated with areas of quartz and carbonate-altered Takla Group sediments and lesser volcanics. Sampling Red Bluffs yielded up to 495 parts per billion gold (Sample 862578) from talus fines sample (Assessment Report 13697). A greater than 200 parts per billion gold anomaly in talus fines is approximately 400 metres wide and remains open to the east and west. This area is also associated with widespread quartz-carbonate-pyrite alteration and veining. On Dortatelle Creek, below Red Bluffs, three silt values were above 50 parts per billion (75, 95, 305 parts per billion). The three values are widely spaced with several low values between them and do not reflect the higher gold values obtained from talus fines collected above the creek, along the base of the cliff. Significant work was completed in the Dort 2 showing (094D 204) area by Hemlo Gold in 1994, only a few hundred metres to the east of Red Bluffs.
In 1985, BP Resources completed a program of geological mapping and rock, silt and soil sampling on their Goldway claims. In 1994 and 1995, Noranda and Hemlo gold Mines completed rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and a ground magnetic survey on their Dort 1-4 and Jo 4 claim, geological mapping and ground magnetic surveying on the area covered by the Dort 1-4 and Jo 4 claims. In 1996, Catalyst Ventures, on the behalf of Battle Mountain Gold, completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling. In 2012 and 2013, J.B. Kreft prospected the area.
