The Flying Dutchman property is located on, and along the northwest side of Bobbie Burns Creek, approximately 2 kilometres west of its confluence with Carbonate Creek, and approximately 30 kilometres south-southwest of Golden. The property includes the Lincoln (Lot 3952), Lucky Jack (Lot 3953) and Bryan (Lot 3951) claims.

The area is underlain by north west-striking, steeply south east-dipping slates and schists of the Hadrynian Horsethief Creek Group.

Locally, highly contorted slates host mineralized quartz veins with minor calcite. The veins strike from 030 to 080 degrees with dips from 38 to 70 degrees north and have irregular widths ranging from 0.3 to 1.2 metres. Mineralization consists of pyrite with lesser arsenopyrite and galena, which occurs as massive lenses or pods, or is irregularly disseminated through the quartz.

In 1934, a grab sample taken from a quartz vein at the southwest drift face from the Flying Dutchman lower crosscut adit assayed 15.7 grams per tonne gold across 0.5 metre (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1934, page E28). Other samples from the Flying Dutchman tunnel are reported to have assayed up to 65.0 grams per tonne gold (Property File - A.C.A Howe [1966-10-20]: Report on the Westgate Mines Ltd. Properties in the Golden Mining Division).

In 1981, a sample across 1.02 metres of the lower adit assayed 6.8 grams per tonne gold (Property File - Mountain Star Resources Ltd. [1997-09-09]: Geological Evaluation and Exploration Potential of the Vermont Project Mineral Claims).

The area has been explored since the 1890’s and by 1898 the underground workings were composed of 100 metres of drifts and crosscuts (National Mineral Inventory 82N/3 Au 3). Workings consist of a 27-metre adit on the Lincoln claim and a 6-metre adit on the Bryan claim. On the Flying Dutchman claim in this same vicinity, two adits totalling 54 metres were driven at elevations of 1867 and 1935 metres in 1890.

In 1966, Westgate Mines prospected and sampled the area as the Bend claims. In 1979, Norcen Energy Resources Ltd. optioned the holdings of Cochrane Oil and Gas Ltd. between Vermont and Warren Creeks and carried out a program of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical soil sampling, geophysics and diamond drilling. In 1980, Norcen continued to work on the same area with a program of geological mapping, regional and detailed geochemistry, geophysics and diamond drilling. In 1982 and 1983, additional programs were carried out on these claims by Cochrane Oil and Gas and Bluesky Oil and Gas Ltd., including diamond drilling. In 1979 and 1980, the First Nuclear Corporation staked a substantial number of claims, from McMurdo Creek at the north end to the northern boundary of the Cochrane ground just north of the Ruth Vermont Mines, following the results of a 1979 stream sediment geochemical survey. Field work in 1980 included geological mapping, prospecting and geochemistry. In 1981, the First Nuclear Corporation continued exploration of the DEB claims with geological mapping, sampling and prospecting. At the end of this program the size of the claim group was reduced to 376 units covering the favourable and anomalous stratigraphy. In 1982, MineQuest Exploration Associates Ltd., working on contract to Samim Canada Ltd., further explored the DEB claims, principally through geological mapping, prospecting, reconnaissance soil geochemistry, mostly on widespread contour lines, and rock-sampling and trenching. In 1983, work by Samim saw 7.7 kilometres of IP surveys completed; a total of 493 metres drilled in 11 BQ holes; and 1096 soil, 227 rock and 27 silt samples collected. In 1997, Mountain Star Resources Ltd. conducted a property examination on the area as the VMT and BB claims.