A Triassic or younger granodiorite to quartz diorite stock intrudes Upper Triassic Stuhini Group volcaniclastics and sediments. The stock is related to the Stikine or McQuillan Plutonic Suite.

Prospecting and geochemical sampling in 1989 were completed over selected parts of the property by Winslow Gold Corp (Assessment Report 19681). This work was concentrated along the eastern edge of the Max Diorite which underlays most of the Iliad 3 claim and the southern portion of the Iliad 2 claim. Lithogeochemical sampling in the area yielded elevated to anomalous copper or copper/nickel values for a number of samples. All of these samples were of rusty weathered quartz-diorite. Lithogeochemical sampling near the southeastern corner of the property yielded elevated copper values ranging from 0.08 to 0.13 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19681).

Extensive malachite and azurite staining was found near the south-central portion of the Iliad 2 and 3 boundary area (Map 1 and 2, Assessment Report 19681). This mineralization is hosted by a rusty weathered quartz diorite containing numerous quartz and quartz-carbonate veinlets. A grab sample yielded 0.32 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19681).

In 2006 and 2007, Hathor Exploration Ltd. completed a 7228.7 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Hawilson claims of the Iskut project. In 2008, Max Minerals Ltd. examined the property.