The Au North occurrence is located in the southern head waters of Golden Gate Creek, approximately 400 metres east of Turtle Lake and 25.5 kilometres north-northeast of Ucluelet, B.C..

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation volcanics which are intruded by and in fault contact with granodiorite of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite. The volcanics are massive, fine grained and greenish. They contain zones of up to 8 per cent disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite near the granodiorite intrusion, where they have been hornfelsed to a flinty, hard, biotitic, dark grey rock. Andesite dikes, mainly porphyritic containing feldspar phenocrysts, are commonly observed within the granodiorite. The dikes are thought to cut the volcanics as well but have not been recognized because of their similar appearance.

Locally, three east-west trending quartz veins dipping at about 65 degrees occur in granodiorite. They contain massive pyrite and pyrrhotite, and traces of sphalerite and chalcopyrite. The best samples were taken from the northern-most vein where it is exposed in a small creek bed. One sample taken across 33 centimetres assayed 15.84 grams per tonne gold and 19.89 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12725).

In 1979, Amore Mineral Inc. completed a program of rock sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the AU claims. In 1980, Multinational Resources completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling. In 1983, Teck Ex. completed a program of soil and rock sampling, geological mapping, a magnetometer survey and seven “winkie“ diamond drill holes, totalling 174.8 metres.

In 2002, W. Guppy prospected the area as the Eastrim property.

In 2014, a rock sampling program on the Kennedy River Gold project, focused on the Tommy K underground workings, approximately 2 kilometres north of Au North, under the direction of owners J.Bakus and D. Patterson (see 092F 033).