The COPPER 9 occurrence is located on Red Creek, a small east-flowing tributary of Thunder Creek, which flows south into the North Fork of Bridge River. The showing is approximately 42 kilometres west of the village of Gold Bridge and 400 metres upslope of the Griswold (Russnor) prospect (Minfile 092JW045).

The area is primarily underlain by the Early Tertiary-age granitic Bridge River Pluton, which intrudes the Late Cretaceous quartz diorite to the southeast and a similarly aged granodiorite body, the Lord River Pluton to the north, west and southwest. The intrusive rocks are overlain by flat-lying Miocene-age basaltic flows (Garibaldi) and intruded by basalt to diorite feeder dikes and felsite, quartz porphyry and felspar porphyry dikes.

Locally, a gossanous zone hosts chalcopyrite mineralization.

In 2005, a rock sample (164666) assayed 2.35 per cent copper (Assessment Report 31388).

The area was originally explored by Cominco in the 1930’s. The area was originally explored by Cominco in the 1930’s. An adit, 62.5 metres long and located at an elevation of 1500 metres, was completed during this time. In 1971, Cerro Minerals completed a program of geological mapping and soil sampling on the area as the Mel and Russnor claims. During 2005 through 2019, Cresval Capital Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling, trenching, an induced polarization survey, 2031.5 metres of diamond drilling in nine holes, an airborne magnetic and radiometric survey and a ground magnetic survey over areas of the property known as the Copper 1-25 claims, the Bridge River project and the Mike property.

In 2010, a 1 kilometre long by 600 metre wide, strong copper-silver-gold soil anomaly was delineated west of the Griswold showing, in the vicinity of the Copper 9 occurrence. In 2011, 770 metres of diamond drilling in 4 holes were completed over the Russnor (Griswold) Breccia. Cresval changed its name to Transforma Resources Corp. in October 2021.