The area of the Scud 10 prospect is underlain by Upper Permian sedimentary rock and greenstone of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. The stratigraphy is intruded by Middle to Late Triassic quartz diorite.

Mineralization on Scud 10 is in the form of pyrite and chalcopyrite and mariposite and bornite bearing shear zones. Tetrahedrite, covellite and arsenopyrite are also reported. The mineralization is associated with an intense ankeritic/limonitic zone that strikes north-northwest and dips east to vertical. The main, intensely altered zone appears to be a fine-grained diorite/trondjemite (possibly subvolcanic) at the margin of a coarse-grained porphyritic monzonite.

The zone is characterized by strong, silicified cross fractures that locally host 30 centimetres wide quartz-calcite veins within wider (3 to 6 metres) intensely altered ankeritic zone. These cross-cutting zones carry mineralization similar to the main zone and can extend up to 10's of metres into the unaltered rocks on either side of the main ankeritic zone. The main ankeritic zone is at least 5 metres wide, but may be up to 15 metres wide near the north end of Scud 10 claim where there are several parallel flanking zones. The main zone is traceable for 1.6 kilometres on the Scud 10 claim, and the presence of other gossans to the north suggests it could extend another 1.6 kilometres to the north. It disappears under a glacier to the south. The mineralization tends to be fracture-controlled, locally disseminated and appears to be very erratic and spotty.

Sampling yielded values up to 2 per cent copper and 2.4 grams per tonne silver but with negligible gold values (Assessment Report 21731). The samples collected in 1991 failed to produce significant values with the exception of 1.5 per cent copper and 30 grams per tonne silver (sample 9701, Assessment Report 21731).

Work History

In 1989 by Homestake Mineral Development Company and Equity Silver Mines Ltd held the Gran 9-10 and Canyon 17. The work program consisted of rock sampling, stream sediment sampling, heavy mineral sampling and prospecting. Sampling by Homestake was reported on the Canyon 17 claim (sample 31166) in the Scud 10 showing area (Assessment Report 19078). Around the same time that Homestake was in this area, International Corona staked the Scud claims which covered some of the same area as the Canyon 17 and Gran claims Assessment Report 19193). The Scud 10 claims overlapped with the Canyon 17 claim.

The property was prospected and sampled to some extent in 1988 and 1989 by Corona. Results of this work are recorded in a series of prospecting by Corona. Limited rock, soil and silt sampling was done on the Scud 1-14, Robyn and Alicia claims of the Scud property. The Scud were owned by Lacana Exploration Inc and the Robyn and Alicia by International Corona Corp.

The 1991 work, consisting of large scale geological mapping, rock and soil conducted on behalf of Akiko Lori Gold Resources Ltd. 257 rock and 42 soil samples were collected.