The No. 9 area is underlain by a sequence of folded and faulted upper Triassic andesitic volcanic and clastic sedimentary rock units of the Stuhini Group. The sequences of clastic layered rocks consist of volcanic wackes, andesitic flows, and argillite interbeds.

The No. 9 showing area is underlain by andesitic lapilli tuff and agglomerate. Propylitic alteration, especially epidote, is very pronounced in the vicinity of the vein. The zone itself displays extensive but discontinuous silicification, bleaching, fracturing, and limonitic patches. Minor amounts of pyrite were observed throughout the fractured and bleached tuffs within the trenches. In trench number 33, a twenty centimetre wide shear zone composed of oxidized and bleached silicified material contains 2 per cent pyrite. This shear zone was is not present in trench 34, only 14 metres along strike to the southeast. The shear zone has an apparent northwest trend.

During 1988, prospecting in the vicinity of gold-in-soil anomalies returned a grab sample which assayed 9.56 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18113). This was collected from a zone reported to be 2 metres wide. Two trenches were excavated across this zone and revealed very erratic and discontinuous mineralization. The chip sample results from the trenches did not correlate with those obtained from the grab sample.

During 1990 (Assessment Report 21301), the two trenches were re-sampled and their results confirmed the very low values obtained during the previous sampling program. No significant mineralization was noted along strike to the northwest. The soil sample results outline an east trending gold anomaly of less than 200 parts per billion gold, that extends for approximately 220 metres and is open to the west. Several single-point gold-in-soil anomalies were noted in the general vicinity.

See Gold Bug (104B 295) for a discussion of a common work history.