The Whynot occurrence is located on Pearson Ridge at an elevation of 1200 metres, approximately 5 kilometres east of the south end of Tyaughton Lake.

The area is underlain by a narrow wedge of Lower Cretaceous Taylor Creek Group sediments consisting of chert pebble conglomerates, sub-greywacke, grits and shales. This wedge is surrounded by volcanics and cherts of the Mississippian to Permian Bridge River Complex (Group); the contact, while not seen, is probably a fault. The volcanics are andesitic to basaltic, massive to pillowed and show in places extensive carbonate(?) alteration with quartz, ankerite and disseminated of mariposite. The Taylor Creek sediments contain ankerite and disseminated pyrite.

Locally, a 1-metre wide shear zone, striking south east and dipping steeply north east in conglomerates, contains stibnite and arsenopyrite. A former adit, now collapsed, explored the shear for 8 metres. In 1985, a grab sample from the adit assayed 1.06 grams gold per tonne and 34.63 grams silver per tonne (Assessment Report 14510). In 1988, trenching is reported to have yielded values up to 6.3 grams per tonne gold over 2 metres and 4.8 grams per tonne gold over 1 metre from trenches WBT 12 and 11, respectively (Assessment Report 24332).

In 1985, Levon Resources completed a program of soil sampling and geological mapping on the area as the Whynot 1-3 claims. In 1988, a 91.7 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey was completed on the claims. In 1995, a program of rock and soil sampling was completed on the area. In 2010, Westbay Ventures soil sampled the area as part of the Golden Mickey property. In 2015, a minor program of geochemical and biogeochemical sampling was completed on the area as the Bridge Epi property.