The JD-1 showing is underlain by Pennsylvanian volcanic rocks and Permian limestone of the Stikine Assemblage. A one-metre wide shear zone, 30-metres long, lies along the contact between greywacke and argillite. Mineralization occurs as blebby chalcopyrite and pyrite with minor galena in a 4-centimetre wide quartz vein in the centre of the shear. A sample taken in 1988 assayed 8.16 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 19516). Further prospecting and sampling occurred in the vicinity of the 1988 sample in 1989 and 1990.

Work History

In 1989, Consolidated Goldwest Resources Ltd. optioned the Scud River property from Pass Lake Resources. They followed with a reconnaissance exploration program in the same year (Assessment Report 19516). A total of 11 field-sieved stream sediment samples, 22 silt samples, 67 soil samples and 82 rock samples were taken. The gold-bearing sulphide float discovered in 1988 on Rugose Creek was traced to gossanous limestone cliffs east of the JD I claim, and the CB I and I1 claims were staked in an attempt to cover this source. Gold-bearing mineralization of limited extent was found in place on the JD I, JD 111, JD V and PL-1 claims

In 1990, a further 8 silt samples, 372 soil samples and 195 rock samples were taken from the Scud River property by Consolidated Goldwest (Assessment Report 20791).. A soil geochemical grid was established near the confluence of Contact Creek and the Scud River to provide mapping control and geochemical information in a poorly exposed area where a 1989 rock sample yielded a value of 3.55 grams per tonne gold. Chip sampling failed to reproduce this value. Two contour soil lines were run on the Bell 2 claim in an attempt to trace the Twilight Zone, a sulphide-bearing horizon which outcrops on the adjacent RB 11 claim, onto the Scud River property.

In 1991, Consolidated Goldwest carried out additional exploration on the Scud River property. The main focus of this program was to trace the Twilight Zone west onto the Bell 2 claim. During the course of this program 10 silt samples, 330 soil samples and 67 rock samples were taken.