The Badger prospect lies on the north shore of Bug Lake in the hillocky valley floor of the Iskut River, approximately 5 kilometres east of the Bronson Airstrip.

The Badger area is underlain by a sequence of folded and faulted upper Triassic andesitic volcanic and clastic sedimentary rock units of the Stuhini Group. The sequences of clastic layered rocks consist of volcanic wackes, andesitic flows, and argillite interbeds.

The Badger and Lake showings occur in an area of agglomerate, andesite and tuff.

The strongest mineralization is in Trench 31 where Tungco Resources exposed a 55 to 65 centimeter wide quartz-chlorite vein within a foliated and sheared structure containing pyrite, chalcopyrite, magnetite and native gold. The structure was tested along strike in both directions (Trench 30 and 32) but the mineralized quartz-chlorite veining was not located in either direction. The best sample results in Trench 31 included gold assays of 15.33 and 13.17 grams per tonne gold over sample widths of 55 and 65 centimeters respectively (Assessment Report 18113).

Trenching at the Lake showing (about 200 metre east of the Badger) indicates erratic, pod-like, and faulted mineralization with variable gold grades. One high-grade grab sample collected along strike to the south, assayed 4.32 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18113). To the east, one float sample and one grab sample carried enhanced gold values. Gold-in-soil results were low.

In 2008 Newcastle Minerals conducted a program of rock and soil sampling over the Bug Lake property including sampling of the Badger and Lake showings. The Badger showing consists of sheared rock and several quartz veins. A chip sample across a 0.05 m wide vein (M500313) contained gold and silver concentrations of 2.01 grams per tonne and 4 grams per tonne, respectively, while a mineralized specimen with abundant sulphides contained 22.91 grams per tonne gold and 36 grams per tonne silver. Specimens of relatively unaltered volcanic rock collected from south end of the Lake trench, approximately 240 metres east of Badger, contained silver values of up to 6 grams per tonne. The highest precious metals grades from the Lake Showing samples were obtained from a 0.3 metre long chip sample across pyritic, chlorite and clay altered volcanics. Gold and silver concentrations in this sample were 18.04 grams per tonne and 28 grams per tonne, respectively. A specimen of massive pyrite collected from a 0.1m wide pod in a vein contained 1.72 grams per tonne gold and 65 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 30391).

See Gold Bug (104B 295) for a discussion of a common work history.