The Dani prospect is located 3.7 kilometres west-northwest of the head of Danube Bay on the east side of Hawkesbury Island, Douglas Channel, at elevations between 80 metres and 480 metres. Prospectors Sean Turford, Ralph Keefe and Brian Remander made the discovery in August 2000 and optioned it to Southern Rio Resources Ltd. in 2002. The property covers a polymetallic massive sulphide occurrence, at the south end of the Ecstall volcanic belt (EMPR Fieldwork 2000, pp. 279-305), and is hosted by mid-Cretaceous, pyrite bearing, felsic schist. Two samples of massive sulhpide boulders collected assayed 10.2 per cent zinc, 5.7 per cent lead, 203 grams per tonne silver and 1.26 grams per tonne gold; and 6.1 per cent zinc, 1.9 per cent lead, 71 grams per tonne silver and 1.26 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Press Release, Southern Rio Resources Ltd., August 20, 2002). The massive sulphides occur as bands within a 50-metre to 100-metre wide zone.