The Feather Cap area has been historically explored for gold, with the Wembley and Two Dogs gold workings located within the project boundary and the Durack deposit located nearby. More recently Auris has focussed on the base metal potential.

This area is interpreted to occur at the top of the prospective Narracoota Formation, in the same stratigraphic position as the Horseshoe Lights deposit, on a northwest-trending synclinal fold axis. Peak copper values of 622ppm and 638ppm copper were recorded within the Narracoota Formation, and best gold values of 0.55g/t and 0.44g/t were reported from contiguous samples at the top of FCAC072.