The Dardanelle prospect is located north of Zymoetz (Copper) River on the southern flanks of Hispaniola Peak, approximately 25 kilometres east of Terrace, B.C.

A 5.5 to 7.3 metre wide quartz-albite dyke trending 075 degrees and dipping 75 degrees north occurs in granodiorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. Quartz veins, 0.3 to 2 metres wide, occur intermittently along both contacts of the dyke for 700 metres and a vertical depth of 180 metres. Minerals observed in the quartz veins include pyrite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, argentite, galena, arsenopyrite, bornite, covellite and gold.

A 1.2 metre sample from the bottom of a shaft assayed 9.3 grams per tonne gold, 61.7 grams per tonne silver, and 1.8 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1918). A 0.4 metre adit sample assayed 13.0 grams per tonne gold and 361.4 grams per tonne silver (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 205). A 25.4 kilogram sample of ore sent for testing assayed 27.9 grams per tonne gold, 624.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.64 per cent copper, 8.16 per cent lead and 3.15 per cent zinc (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 329).

In 1915, approximately 33 metres of development work including open cuts, adit, drift and shaft was carried initiated on the Dardanelle prospect, to investigate a "series of fissure veins filled with quartz containing minute particles of galena, iron pyrites and occasionally a little bornite and copper glance (chalcocite). In 1936 another adit was driven for a 485 metre length to intersect surface showings. Surface trenching was carried out by Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. during 1948.

During the 1969 field season, Univex Mining Corporation carried out surface and underground mapping, geochemical soil sampling, hand and bulldozer trenching and refurbishing the underground workings. Gold assays from systematic sampling in footwall vein material (underground) ranged from 0.22 gram per tonne to 5.42 grams per tonne. Surface assays from systematic sampling in footwall vein material ranged from 4.17 grams per tonne to 13.30 grams per tonne. Soil sampling grids confirmed an Au, Ag, Pb anomaly concurrent with and downslope from a known mineralized area (Trench T-13) and a second Pb, Zn, Cu anomaly on the east edge of the orientation grid is on strike with the projected dyke location (Assessment Report 18602).

In August 1983, a report by S. Reamsbottom suggested that the property contains reserves of approximately 181,440 tonnes grading about 7.5 grams per tonne gold and 17.1 grams per tonne silver (George Cross Newsletter Nov.13, 1984).

Soil sampling and mapping was conducted by Trade Winds Ventures Inc on behalf of the owners in 2004, followed by further trenching and 294.2 metres (5 holes) of diamond drilling in 2005. Assays from the intersected hanging wall vein in two holes returned 1.37 metres of 4.5 a grams per tonne Au and 1.22 metres of 12.85 grams per tonne Au, with generally poor recoveries (Assessment Reports 27649 and 28303).

Decade Resources Ltd. picked up the Dardanelle property in 2018, initiating a program to verify lithological variability and geochemistry of the westernmost parts of the property. The geologists gathered geological observations, took structural measurements and collected 54 rock samples. The surface rock sampling was focused on the geochemistry of the rock formations in searching for a potential western extension of the Dardanelle dyke-vein system (Assessment Report 37764). Decade continued surface exploration in 2020, confirming the presence of quartz-sulphide mineralization on either one or both sides a felsic intrusive dike traced over 600 metres and is open along strike and depth (Decade Resources Ltd. Press Release Feb 04, 2021).