Kenny Creek flows east into Silver Creek at a point approximately 39 kilometres northeast of Takla Landing. Gold was originally discovered on Silver Creek in 1868, but production from both creeks was not reported until the 1930s. Drilling was undertaken to test Silver Creek in 1935 and again in 1954, and work has continued sporadically until recently.
The area is underlain by a north-northwest striking, steeply dipping metasedimentary/volcanic suite assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex, along and west of the Pinchi fault zone. Here, phyllite and tuff are the most common members. These rocks host numerous barren-looking, locally rusty, white quartz veins varying up to a metre in width. East of the fault zone, andesite and sandstone assigned to the Middle Triassic to Lower Jurassic Takla Formation have been mapped.
The creeks have fairly wide valleys with high gravel banks on both sides. Concentrations of placer gold were apparently found in shallow preglacial gravels on or immediately overlying bedrock.
Combined production from Kenny and Silver creeks to 1949 is reported to be 19,968 grams of gold (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 141). Recent production from Kenny Creek, approximately 1 kilometre up from its confluence with Silver Creek, is reported to have totalled 22,395 grams gold for the period 1979-1982 (Assessment Report 11625, page 3). Sporadic work has continued up to the present.
Nuggets of arquerite, a native amalgam of silver and mercury, and boulders of cinnabar up to 60 centimetres in diameter have also been found in Silver Creek near its confluence with Kenny Creek (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 252, page 141).
In 1983, Bema Industries Ltd. completed a placer testing program of the Kenny Creek area to outline the extent of the gravel reserves. Soil sampling returned slightly anomalous values of gold.
In 1983, Golden Porphyrite Ltd. conducted geological and geochemical surveys on the area containing the occurrence. The survey established a number of areas with major anomalous gold and silver values.
In 2015, Vern Mann competed a magnetometer survey on the area surrounding the occurrence. Results highlighted a large area of magnetic high that was noted to be associated with bedrock highs or graphitic sediments.
