The Pub occurrence is located at the headwaters of Cracker Creek which drains eastward into the north end of Surprise Lake, about 27 kilometres northeast of the community of Atlin.

The area is underlain primarily by porphyritic alaskite to quartz monzonite of the Late Cretaceous Surprise Lake batholith (Surprise Lake Plutonic Suite). These rocks have intruded Upper Mississippian to Permian serpentinized peridotites of the Cache Creek Complex. The Cache Creek Complex is also represented by cherts and argillites of the Mississippian to Triassic Kedahda Formation and greenstone of the Upper Mississippian to Permian Nakina Formation. The ultramafic rocks are spatially related to Nakina Formation mafic volcanics and according to Monger (Paper 74-47) they may also be genetically related.

A minor zone of serpentinite containing thin seams of asbestos (tremolite?) is reported (Assessment Report 2541). It is assumed to be tremolite asbestos as in the Pereye showing (104N 124) located 1.5 kilometres south.

In 1970, a property evaluation was conducted on the Hub and Pub claims on behalf of Panther Mines Ltd. Soil sampling and geological mapping was undertaken along east-west traverses.

In 2002, prospection was done by William B Wallis on the B&B and B&W 1&2 claims, who is the owner of these claims as well.

In 2017, Global Drilling Solutions on behalf of Zinex Mining Corporation conducted extensive geochemical sampling on the Ruby Creek property, as well as drilling and ground geophysics. In 2018, Global carried out further geochemical sampling on the property, and in 2019 they continued work in this region, in the form of prospection, geochemical surveying and a ground geophysical survey. The commodities of interest include gold, copper, lead, zinc, and silver.

In 2021, an airborne SkyTEM survey was conducted by Stuhini Exploration on the Ruby Creek property, which revealed a number of regional trends across the property.