The Victory (West) prospect is located on an un-named tributary of the San Juan River, approximately 1.5 kilometres north west of the junction of Clapp Creek and the San Juan River.

The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Bonanza Group volcanics consisting mainly of massive, east-striking andesitic lava. Purple, shaly tuff and amygdaloidal lava also occur in the vicinity of the workings and coarse tuff occurs a little to the north. Two separate groups of showings have been examined, one group exposes small amounts of scheelite in silicified ribs, the other exposes several quartz lenses, some of which contain bunches of stibnite. Both showing types are confined to the more massive andesite lava rather than to the tuffs.

The scheelite-bearing, silicified ribs consist of quartz veinlets accompanied by wallrock that has largely been replaced by fine-grained quartz. The wallrock is greenstone.

The quartz lenses are found in a carbonate zone, from 0.6 to 30 metres in width, that strikes northeasterly and dips nearly vertically for a distance of 335 metres. The carbonate zone consists of greenstone that has been sheared in places and largely replaced by iron-calcium-magnesium carbonate (ankerite). The veins range in width from a few centimetres up to 45 centimetres and in length from less than a metre to a maximum exposed length of 23 metres. A sample taken in a shaft across a 35-centimetre vein assayed 20.57 grams per tonne gold and 5.4 per cent antimony (Stevenson, 1944). Molybdenite was also noted at one place in this zone.

The shaft was sunk to a depth of 9 metres during World War I but most of the work has been done since 1940. A second and third phase of work was started in 1939 and in the late 1960's respectively. Stripping, trenching and several drill holes examined the zone during these periods. The holes testing the showings in the 1940's intersected the carbonate zone throughout but failed to intersect the quartz lenses at depth; a few specks of scheelite were seen in two of the holes.

In 1985, Tri-Pacific Resources completed a program of geochemical sampling, ground geophysical surveys and geological mapping. Grab samples of the Ruby vein system assayed up to 4.3 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14414). In 1995, a ground electromagnetic survey was completed on the area as the Dianne claim.