The Ron 9 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1700 metres on a southwest-facing slope, approximately 1.4 kilometres north of Kemess Lake and about 188 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The Toodoggone district lies within the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt and is underlain by a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Paleogene sediments, volcanics and intrusions covering an area of 90 by 25 kilometres. The basement rocks are Proterozoic metasedimentary equivalents of the Hadrynian Ingenika Group. These rocks are unconformably overlain by volcanic and sedimentary units of the Devonian to Permian Asitka Group, which are in turn overlain by Upper Triassic basaltic to andesitic flows, volcaniclastics and minor limestone of the Stuhini Group. Volcaniclastic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group and rhyolitic to dacitic flows, intrusions and volcaniclastics of the Lower Jurassic Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group) overlie the Stuhini Group. Further to the west, nonmarine sediments of the Cretaceous Sustut Group overlie the volcanic strata and form the western margin of the district.

The Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite, of quartz monzonitic to granodioritic composition, has intruded the older strata in the central and eastern parts of the region and forms the eastern margin of the Toodoggone district. Within the district, syenomonzonitic and quartz feldspar porphyritic dikes may be feeders to the Toodoggone Formation.

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults that define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. 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.

At the Ron 9 showing, a gossanous zone hosts a 2-metre-wide oxidized zone in blocky argillite with gold values. In 1984, a sample (84TVT40) assayed 0.58 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 13027). In 2015, a nearby drillhole (KH-15-21) yielded 0.566 gram per tonne gold over 1.5 metres of silicified sediments hosting pyrite and chalcopyrite (Assessment Report 36283).

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby Kemess North deposit (094E 021) located 3.4 kilometres north, and the Kemess South deposit (094E 094) located 2.9 kilometres south.

In 1984, Pacific Ridge Resources Corp. completed a program of soil sampling, geological mapping and ground induced polarization and magnetic surveys on the area as the Ron 9 claim. In 1988, Canadian Venture Corp. completed a 44.0 line kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Dun 1-2 claims.

In 1990 and 1991, El Condor Resources Ltd. conducted programs of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and a 201.0 line kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as part of the Kemess property.

During 2000 through 2011, Northgate Minerals Corporation completed further programs of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling, ground geophysical surveying and diamond drilling on the Kemess and Kemess East properties.

During 2013 through 2017, AuRico Gold Inc. completed programs of geological mapping and diamond drilling on the area as part of the Kemess East property. In 2015, five diamond-drill holes were completed in the Ron 9 (Orion) area.