The Gord 9 prospect is located 3.0 kilometres northeast of Mount Gordonia, east of Mulvaney Creek. The prospect is 300 kilometres north of Smithers. It lies within the Omineca-Cassiar Mountains in the north-central portion of the Toodoggone gold camp. The occurrence is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. Takla volcanics have been intruded by the granodiorite to quartz monzonite Black Lake Suite of Early Jurassic age and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation, Hazelton Group.

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle, northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The Gord 9 prospect is underlain by a thick sequence of volcanic rocks consisting of green and purple feldspar porphyritic andesite flows, cherty andesites and porphyritic andesitic pyroclastics, ranging from tuff to agglomerate (Assessment Report 5194). Outcrops consisting of pink monzonite dikes and small stocks are scattered around the occurrence and are related to Early to Middle Jurassic plutons to the northwest and south. A major fault intersection between a north and a northwest-striking fault occurs about 290 metres south of the prospect.

Mineralization is part of a large gossanous area that can be traced for several tens of metres across a ridge. Mineralization consisting of chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and pyrite occur in quartz veins. Alteration consists of associated envelopes of silicification, carbonate and argillic alteration, and oxidization and leaching.

A series of branching zones 60 to 152 centimetres wide and about 50 metres long of rusty carbonate-altered andesite contain widespread pyrite and scattered clots of galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite.

A 91-centimetre wide chip sample of this mineralization analysed 30 grams per tonne silver, 1.9 per cent zinc, 0.43 per cent lead and 0.1075 per cent copper (Assessment Report 5194).

In 2004, grab samples from the Gord 9 occurrence area yielded up to 5.745 grams per tonne gold and 200 grams per tonne silver (Sample 148905; Assessment Report 27638).

In 2005, three chip samples (64339 through 64341) over 0.2 to 0.4 metre from a 0.2-metre wide quartz vein hosting chalcopyrite and pyrite, exposed over 10 metres along a strike of 042 to 046 degrees and dipping 78 to 80 degrees, yielded from 0.37 to 2.38 grams per tonne gold, 7.1 to 21.5 grams per tonne silver and 3.84 to 7.74 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28039).

Work History

The Gord 1-46 claims were held in 1974 by Union Miniere Exploration and Mining Corporation Limited. Geological mapping, an electromagnetic survey over 11.1 kilometres and a geochemical soil survey (293 samples) over 17.2 kilometers were carried out.

In 1980, Du Pont of Canada Exploration Limited collected silt and soil samples on their Mul 1 and 2 claims to the immediate east of the Gord showings (094E 51 and 52).

In 1987 Beachview Resources conducted 207 kilometres of airborne magnetic and electromagnetic (VLF) geophysics over their Gord 1 and Met 1-2 claims, over the area of the Gord showings (Assessment Report 15997).

In 2004, Stealth Minerals held the Gordo Group of claims which covered the Joanna occurrences on the north, the Falcon occurrences (094E 185 and 185) on the south, the Oxide Peak occurrences (094E 179, 180 and 181) to the west and the Gord occurrence (094E 051 and 052) on the east. Stealth collected 854 rock samples for analysis and 274 samples were taken PIMA rock spectroscopy for alteration identification (Assessment Report 27638) (Assessment Report 27638). Ten silt and 30 soil samples were also taken. A number of samples were collected in the area of the Gord 18 (094E 051) showing.

In 2005, Stealth Minerals Ltd. completed a further program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the Gordo-Too-Oxide property.

In 2014, a program of prospecting and geological mapping was completed on the area as the Tod property.

In 2016, Seven Devils Exploration Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on the area.

In 2018, Arcwest Exploration Inc. conducted a program of geological mapping and minor rock sampling on the area.