Exploration was carried out over 103 claim units located in the prolific Val d' Or mining camp of northwestern Quebec, covering several previously identified prospective showings of rare element metals with either have direct values of tantalum present or values of minerals commonly associated with tantalum bearing pegmatites present. The claims covered 10 separate properties had been only marginally subjected to exploration for lithium, beryllium, porphyry copper-molybdenum, and gold during the 20th century. The properties have pegmatites varying in thickness from 1 metre to 50 metres in width associated with the contact zones of the La Corne and La Motte peraluminous granitic batholiths.

Peraluminous granites are associated with the known producing tantalum mines in Canada and Australia. A Quebec Ministry of Natural Resources bulk sample (70 pounds) taken from a 150 metre long 6 metre wide pegmatite dyke contained 13 pounds of tantalite. This showing is located along the south contact of the La Motte batholith and is to the west (one kilometre of Group 10) of two of Kermode's optioned claim groups that are in the same geological environment.

Kermode has carried out two exploration programs on these properties and has, as a result of these programs reduced the property to 3 claim groups that total 12 claims covering 510.47 hectares. The most interesting of these is Group 3; the claims are underlain mainly by LaCorne granite, which has been intruded by two northeast-trending gabbro/diabase dikes and numerous pegmatites. This group of claims lies near the centre of the LaCorne pluton, which varies from granite to pegmatitic granite with accessory muscovite and garnet. The central location of these pegmatites within the pluton is unusual, since differentiation normally increases outward into the surrounding country rocks from the LaCorne and LaMotte pegmatitic granites.

At the centre of Claim group 3 is the well-known highly differentiated lepidolite-bearing Valor pegmatite dike showing (Figure 6). The Valor pegmatite dyke strikes about east-west, but the two ends of the dike differ significantly. The west end consists of a simple mineralogy of K-feldspar, quartz, albite, muscovite and spodumene, not unlike many other spodumene dikes in the district. However, approaching the east end of the pegmatite, the albite content increases, lepidolite is noted, and spodumene crystals become white and up to a meter in length. These changes are indicative of a very high level of differentiation within the magma. The albite is of particular interest, since it is the curved cleavelandite variety, which is frequently associated with tantalum mineralization. The dike is very shallow dipping at this end and not much more than a meter or two thick.

A single vertical drill hole to between 400 and 500 meters depth is recommended to test the Valor Pegmatite.