The Bud (North Zone) prospect is about 1.5 kilometres northeast of August Lake and 6 kilometres east-southeast of Princeton.

This area along the west flank of the Darcy Mountains is underlain to the west by volcanics and related sediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group and to the east by granodiorite of the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith.

A zone of copper mineralization trends north-northwest for 400 metres, in altered andesite tuff. The tuff is intruded to the south by pink-weathering porphyritic dykes up to 0.5 metres wide, and to the north by quartz diorite dykes. These dykes are likely related to the nearby Bromley batholith.

Chalcopyrite and pyrite are exposed in various trenches and pits at the north and south ends of the zone. These sulphides tend to occur near the dykes. A 1.2-metre chip sample taken in the vicinity of the southern pits assayed 0.22 per cent copper, 0.21 gram per tonne gold and 1.7 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15022, page 12). A grab sample assayed 0.76 per cent copper, 0.24 gram per tonne gold and 0.34 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12736, North zone geology map). These pits expose stringers and disseminations of chalcopyrite and pyrite with abundant carbonate, magnetite, biotite and epidote. A chip sample of sparse chalcopyrite-malachite-chrysocolla mineralization taken along a 100- metre long, west-trending trench at the north end of the zone, contained 0.314 per cent copper and 0.6 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15022, page 13). Sporadic malachite staining, sometimes associated with quartz-carbonate veins, occurs throughout the rest of the zone. Chalcocite is also reported.

The trenches and pits were excavated around 1980. Pacific Seadrift Resources Ltd. conducted prospecting, sampling and soil surveys between 1983 and 1986. G. & V. Explorations Ltd. carried out geological mapping and soil sampling in 1986 and 1987. The prospect was also soil sampled by Gold Brick Resources Inc. in 1988.