The Yuctaw (Channel Island) showing is located in Cordero Channel north of East Thurlow Island. The showing is composed of the Yuctaw and Poodle Dog workings on the island.

The island is underlain by quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex.

The showing is composed of "iron pyrites" in three quartz veins, up to 6.5 metres wide, two of which are "banded" (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929, page 389). The significance of this showing is related to its similarity in deposit type to the White Pine (MINFILE 092K 036) and Hope (MINFILE 092K 018) gold past producers on East Thurlow Island.

The workings date back to 1896, when 24.4 metres of "tunnelling on good ore" was recorded for the Poodle Dog workings (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1896, page 554).

In early 1987, Verdstone Gold completed a program of soil sampling and a 5.1 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Bick 1 to 4 claims. Later the same year, Rea Gold, on behalf of Verdstone, completed a program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and 21 line-kilometres of combined ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area.