The Tropicana gold deposit represented the first discovery within a new gold province located along an ancient collision zone between the Yilgarn Craton  and the Albany-Fraser Province. The geological setting was historically seen to not be prospective for gold deposits.

As well as exploration work in the immediate vicinity of the Tropicana Gold Project, the partners have been carrying out comprehensive regional geochemical and geophysical surveys.

On a regional scale, first pass aircore drilling programmes over domains of anomalous soil/auger geochemistry have, in many areas, returned anomalous results that warrant follow up exploration.

District scale gold potential is delineated by a corridor of anomalism extending 220 km to the south-west to the Beachcomber prospect and 30 km to the north-east to the Voodoo Child prospect.

Exploration techniques used by the joint venture include geochemical sampling, geophysical surveys along with aircore, RC and diamond drilling.