The Hammer showing, on the PL-1 claim, comprises several gold-bearing quartz veins, hosted within a plug of rusty-weathering, medium-grained granite to granodiorite of the Paleocene to Eocene Sloko-Hyder Plutonic Suite. A pluton consisting primarily of monzodiorite of the Early Jurassic Texas Creek Plutonic Suite occurs to the immediate north and west of the PL-1 occurrence. Argillite and siltstone bound the granitic plug and were coorelated with the Stikine Assemblage (Pennsylvanian rock) by Consolidated Goldwest, rather than the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. Permian limestone of the Stikine Assemblage also occurs
The veins are generally 3 to 12 centimetres wide and contain pyrite or pyrrhotite. Two sets of veins were observed. One set strikes north easterly and dips moderately to the northwest, the other set strikes northwesterly and dips moderately to the southwest. The wallrock is slightly silicified but otherwise unaltered. Samples from these veins returned gold values as high as 10.42 grams per tonne gold (Sample 32931, Assessment Report 20791).
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. A showing located at the northwest corner of the PL-1 claim was discovered. One of several samples taken there assayed 2.88 grams per tonne gold (Sample 447249, Assessment Report 19516). The following year this mineralized area on the PL-1 claim became known as the Hammer showing.
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. A dozen or so rock samples were collected on the Hammer showing.
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.
