The French occurrence is located on the north side of the French Peak Mountain Range, approximately 50 kilometres east of the community of Hazelton.
Lower Cretaceous clastic sedimentary rocks of the Kitsuns Creek Formation (Skeena Group) are intruded by an altered feldspar porphyry plug, approximately 1.5 kilometres in diameter. The plug, of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite, has hornfelsed the sedimentary rocks.
An extensive pyrite-sericite halo is developed and minor chalcopyrite has been recognized (Geology, Exploration and Mining 1973, page 358). Prospecting has yielded copper mineralization as disseminations of chalcopyrite and malachite as coatings on fracture faces. The exposed alteration zonation has suggested that the core of the porphyry system containing higher grade copper-gold mineralization may be present.
In 1966, the French group of 20 claims was held by Kennco Explorations (Western), Limited. Work during the year included the drilling of one AXT hole 32 metres deep on the French No. 20 claim. Very little documentation is available on this phase of work.
In 1971 , the area was restaked by Canadian Superior Exploration Limited as the RO 1-66 claims group. Work consisted of soil geochemical (410 samples), induced polarization (11.4 kilometres), and magnetometer surveys (16.9 kilometres); results were inconclusive. In 1973, detailed prospecting, mapping and limited trenching was conducted with no significant copper mineralization being discovered. This work did indicate potential for copper-gold-molybdenum mineralization on may be present on the lower slopes near Nichyeskwa Creek. Geophysical surveys showed a strong induced polarization response peripheral to a zone of strongly anomalous magnetic anomaly, a typical pattern for Babine-style porphyry deposits.
During the fall of 1990, 66 two-post claims were staked on behalf of Goldpac Investments Ltd. to protect an area of extensive pyrite-sericite alteration believed to be associated with a Babine-style copper-gold porphyry deposit. In the fall of 1991, on behalf of Goldpac Investments Ltd., four man-days were spent surface prospecting the large sericite-pyrite alteration zone exposed on the northern flank of a ridge located 7 kilometres north-northwest of French Peak. In addition, six days were spent prospecting upper southern slopes of the Nichyeskwa drainage immediately beneath the alteration zone. In 1992, the Zed claims were held by Goldpac Investments Ltd. who conducted geologic mapping and prospecting which indicated that copper mineralization occurs as disseminations of chalcopyrite and malachite as coatings on fracture surfaces. In the Fall of 1994, L.B. Warren staked the Yes claims when the Zed Claims expired and prospected the area in 1995.
No further work was reported in the area until the current (ca. 2016) Jacobite claims were acquired by Running Dog Resources Ltd. and Attunga Holdings Inc. A single day of mapping and geochemical sampling was carried out on the Jacobite property in August 2016. In 2017, an exploration program comprised compilation of historic data and the inversion and re-interpretation of the historic induced polarization data. The compilation of historic data focussed reviewing past exploration work, historic maps, and past geophysical data in the context of modern ore deposit models. The induced polarization data from Canadian Superior completed in 1972 was inverted and re-interpreted to confirm results and plan future induced polarization and geochemical sampling programs.
