The Sugar 8 occurrence is located 20 kilometres north-northeast of the confluence of the Stikine and Iskut rivers.

The Sugar region is underlain by limestones, limey sediments and marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Devonian to Permian Stikine Assemblage and marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. The stratigraphy is intruded by Triassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex dioritic rocks. An Early Jurassic granodioritic stock of the Early Jurassic Texas Creek Plutonic Suite intrudes the strata to the immediate north and the Middle Jurassic Warm Springs Mountain Pluton, consisting of monzodiorite to gabbro intrudes the strata to the immediate south along the Choquette River.

Volcanic hosted skarn float discovered in the middle of a glacial outwash plain was traced to a showing on the Sugar 8 claim which may also be related to a northeast-southwest structure and an assumed volcanic/sediment contact. The showing area is underlain by andesite and dacitic tuffs and banded sediments to the north.

The volcanic-hosted skarn contains 50 per cent pyrrhotite, 20 per cent pyrite, diopside, garnet, epidote and chlorite, cut by hornblende porphyry dikes, adjacent to siliceous volcanic tuff and prominent feldspar porphyry intrusive, in an exposed area of 10 by 10 metres. A 2 metre chip sample of mineralized skarn assayed 40 parts per billion gold, 17.8 grams per tonne silver, 1.3 per cent copper and 0.9 per cent zinc (Sample 30586, Assessment Report 20192).

Twelve claims covering an area of 6 kilometres (east-west) by 15 kilometres (north south) were staked as the Sugar 1-12 claim group in 1988 by Lacana Exploration Inc, a subsidiary of Corona Corporation. Prospecting in 1988 by Lacana on the Sugar 1-12 claims resulted in the collection of 299 rock samples and 15 silt samples. In 1989, Lacana prospected and mapped the claims, collected 259 rock samples.

In 2014 a one-day rock sampling program was done on Sugar 5 (Eagle Crag Ridge) and Sugar 8 (Fowler Creek, 3 kilometres southeast) by Coast Mountain Geological Ltd. for Hydro Capital Corp. Two rock grab samples (Sinc 14011 and 14012) were collected from pods of skarn located at the headwaters of Fowler Creek. These massive sulphide pods contain chalcopyrite and sphalerite along with pyrrhotite and are hosted within chlorite altered Stuhini Group volcanics. Three float samples were also collected of altered feldspar porphyry andesite with pyrite-bearing quartz veins or quartz with chalcopyrite. Rock sample Sinc 14014 returned 9769.8 parts per million copper from the sample of quartz float (Assessment Report 35531).