The TT occurrence is located 4.9 kilometres southeast of the eastern end of Witch Lake, approximately 74 kilometres north of Fort St. James.
The TT showing area is underlain by the northwest-trending contact of the Upper Triassic Witch Lake Formation (Takla Group) on the west and the Early Jurassic Chuchi Lake succession on the east. The Witch Lake package consists of volcaniclastic rocks and the Chuchi Lake succession consists of coarse volcaniclastic rocks and pyroclastic volcanic rocks.
The skarn copper-gold mineralization on Taylor Creek was discovered pre-1960. In 1971, Ambassador Mines Ltd. completed a soil grid and ground magnetic and seismic surveys over the Taylor showing (MINFILE 093N 096) located 3 kilometres northwest of the TT showing. The geochemical survey indicated a moderate copper anomaly with some coincident zinc and molybdenum values. The seismic survey indicated an average overburden depth of 4.88 metres and the magnetic survey detected a broad high in the northwest part of the map area. In 1987, the property was staked by Richard Haslinger and, in 1988, Placer Dome completed soil and rock sampling around the Taylor showing, detecting no significant precious or base metal signatures on the property. Noranda Exploration Company acquired the Mitzi property from Haslinger in 1989 and worked on it until 1992. Noranda completed geological mapping, soil/rock sampling, an aeromagnetic-electromagnetic survey, ground magnetic and induced polarization surveys and 18 diamond drill holes, including 15 holes on the Main grid (TT claims), two holes on the Cas (MINFILE 093N 218) showing, located 6.7 kilometres southwest of the TT showing, and one hole that tested the western extension of the Taylor occurrence.
Noranda’s work on the Main grid identified a greater than 1- by 6.5-kilometre, poorly exposed induced polarization anomaly that is coincident with strong aeromagnetic anomalies. Wide-spaced drilling (up to 15 holes) to test this zone intersected pyritized, in part skarnified and propylitized andesite, and pyritized and propylitized (locally with potassic alteration) diorite and monzonite with low-grade copper and gold mineralization.
Drillhole 11, drilled 275 metres north of hole 8, intersected 18.7 metres of potassically altered, pyrite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite-magnetite mineralized feldspar and augite porphyritic andesite flows and fragmental volcanics overlying dominantly feldspar porphyritic intrusive rock containing similar potassic alteration. Mineralization in both volcanic and intrusive rock is dominantly disseminated with blotchy pyrite and minor pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. Sulphide content drops off below 60 metres in the monzonite and magnetite increases. The best assay interval from hole 11 was 21 metres grading 0.152 per cent copper (Assessment Report 22299). Earlier work by Serengeti Resources reported a value of 1.5 grams per tonne gold over a 4.2-metre drill intersection from 1990 Noranda Hole 10 (as reported in Assessment Report 27868).
Serengeti Resources Inc. held the Choo property, which covered the Taylor, TT (MINFILE 093N 227) and Webb (MINFILE 093N 131) occurrences and the northern portion of the Mitzi claim group, since 2004. The Webb showing is located 2.8 kilometres east-northeast of the TT showing. In 2004, Serengeti Resources carried out a program of rock (6 samples), stream sediment (17 samples and soil (32 samples) sampling between October 4 to October 13. This work confirmed the copper, rock and soil anomalies reported by Noranda.
In 2007, on behalf of Serengeti, Peter E. Walcott and Associates conducted 11 kilometres of IP and ground magnetic geophysical surveying over the Choo property. The survey entailed five north trending lines, three on the eastern portion of the property and two on the western portion. A broad zone of high chargeability response, approximately 1200 metres wide, was observed trending across the east grid. Two shallow anomalous zones separated by a deeper zone occupied most of the two-line traverse in the west.
In 2011, Serengeti Resources Inc. conducted an exploration program to complete geochemical, geological, and geophysical surveys to test for glacial till–covered copper-gold porphyry targets on the Choo property. From July to August 2011, a 23 line-kilometre induced polarization survey was completed and identified chargeability targets at each of the five targets (C1 to C5) indicating the presence of a sulphide system. Following this survey, from August to September 2011, Peter E. Walcott & Associates completed a 19.5 line-kilometre induced polarization geophysical survey using a 100-metre ‘a’ spacing. A further 3.4 line-kilometres of induced polarization surveying using a 200-metre ‘a’ spacing was completed over selected lines to survey deeper readings. In addition to the induced polarization survey, Serengeti geologists and samplers completed a geological reconnaissance survey and collected 551 Ah soil samples and 39 rock samples. Rock sample 1114713 of a silicified tuff with minor disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite, and trace pyrrhotite returned 0.171 per cent copper and 0.084 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 33161).
In 2012, Serengeti Resources Inc. released the results from a drill program financed by Freeport-McMoRan of Canada Limited on the Tchentlo and Choo properties. On the Choo property, three very widely spaced holes (up to five kilometres apart) encountered gold anomalous intervals (1.53 grams per tonne over 4 metres, 0.55 gram per tonne over 8 metres, and 0.66 gram per tonne over 5 metres) at or near the contacts of andesite or feldspar porphyry dikes (Press Release - Serengeti Resources Inc., August 29, 2012).
