The Tyee occurrence is located north of Caribou Creek at the 1550 metre elevation, approximately 700 metres east of Tyee Creek. The town of Burton is 15 kilometres to the southwest.

Diamond drilling by Falconbridge in 1984 intersected sub-economic gold in drillhole 84-3 (Assessment Report 13797). Two metres grading 1.2 grams per tonne gold and 1.7 metres grading 0.95 gram per tonne were intersected in altered tuffaceous mafic volcanic rock near the contact with argillaceous metasedimentary rocks of the Triassic Slocan Group. These values are associated with zones of disseminated pyrite, sphalerite and arsenopyrite. Strong bleaching, chloritization and quartz-carbonate alteration is evident in the area.

In 1984, Ivor Watson and Associates conducted prospecting, geological mapping and soil sampling. In 1985, Falconbridge Ltd. completed some soil sampling and geological mapping and drilled 10 diamond-drill holes totalling 684 metres. In 1988, Ainsworth Jenkins Holdings Inc. conducted soil sampling, and magnetic and electromagnetic surveys.