The Groundhog showing is situated on a creek crossed by the Takla Rainbow-Manson Creek road at Groundhog Pass, approximately 2 kilometres south of the confluence of Groundhog and Twin creeks.

Mapping (Open File 1993-4) identified mineralization within fresh, maroon, amygdaloidal plagioclase porphyritic basaltic andesites. The gently dipping volcanics are part of the Lower Jurassic Twin Creek Formation of the Middle Triassic-Lower Jurassic Takla Group. Amygdules up to 1 centimetre in diameter are filled with massive magnetite and was probably deposited by late-stage magmatic fluids. The magnetite amygdules are the probable source of the Regional Geochemical Survey anomaly.

A grab sample from an amygdaloidal flow assayed 0.0890 per cent copper, 0.0100 per cent zinc and 0.0012 per cent lead. Malachite was noted on a fracture surface (Fieldwork, 1993).

Work History

A multi-element stream sediment anomaly was identified at the mouth of this creek during a Regional Geochemical Survey (RGS) in 1983.

In 1984, BP Resources Canada Ltd. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling on the area as the Twin 1 claim. This work identified a zone of epidote-altered andesite lapilli tuff and/or breccia with trace chalcopyrite along the creek to the southeast of the plotted location of the Groundhog occurrence.

In 1990 and 1991, Golden Rule Resources Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling and a 1500 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Takla property.

During 2005 through 2010, Redton Resources and Geoinformatics Exploration Canada Inc. undertook work on the regionally extensive Redton property, which covered the Falcon (MINFILE 093N 068) occurrence to the south (just north of Nation Lake) and north to the Tak (MINFILE 093N 067) occurrence, approximately 6 kilometres south of the Omineca River. In 2005, a 5764.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey was completed on the area as the Takla-Redton property. In 2006, a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling was completed on the property along with 12 diamond drill holes, totalling 4032.5 metres, on the Takla-Rainbow (MINFILE 093N 082) and Tak occurrences. In 2007 and 2008, programs of geochemical sampling (rock, silt, and soil) sampling, ground geophysical surveys and 10 diamond drill holes, totalling 3784.0 metres, were completed on the property. This work centred primarily on the Takla-Rainbow occurrence to the north and Falcon occurrence to the south. In 2010, a subsequent AeroTEM survey by Redton Resources identified 65 electromagnetic anomalies on the property.

In 2011, Kiska Metals Corp. (previously Rimfire Minerals Corporation) completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt, and soil) sampling and a 64.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Redton property. The induced polarization survey was undertaken on a till-covered area near the Falcon (MINFILE 093N 068) occurrence.

In 2013 and 2014, Serengeti Resources Inc. completed programs of geochemical (soil, silt, and rock) sampling on the area immediately south as the Kwanika East property. The following year a 328.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey was completed.