The Tut 3 occurrence is located 3 kilometres south of Tutizzi Lake approximately 81 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The area is underlain by porphyritic andesites and banded tuffs of the Upper Triassic Plughat Mountain Formation (Takla Group). The eastern contact of the Early Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite, here consisting of hornblende biotite monzonite, occurs several kilometres to the west. A small diorite stock of the Late Triassic to Early Jurassic Aiken Lake Intrusive Complex intrudes the volcanics about one kilometre to the east of the showing.

A vuggy limonite-stained quartz vein in andesite contains traces of disseminated malachite and molybdenite. In 1991, a 20-centimetre chip sample assayed 2.02 grams per tonne gold, 79.6 grams per tonne silver and 0.026 per cent copper (Assessment Report 21780).

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Union Miniere Exploration and Mining Corp. Ltd. (UMEX) of Montreal conducted extensive regional exploration in north-central British Columbia. This work located two small but well-defined magnetic anomalies over Takla Group volcanics on the west side of the later (2005) Tut South property and anomalous copper in silts from streams draining the area (as reported in Assessment Report 28253). The Tut South property encompassed the Ache (094C 147) and the Tut 6 (094C 136) occurrences. Follow-up ground surveys indicated several copper occurrences within the volcanics adjacent to the contact with intrusive rocks of the Hogem Plutonic Suite.

During the early 1990s, the immediate area was explored for copper-gold porphyry deposits jointly by Major General Resources and Swannell Minerals Corporation as the Tut claims. The 1991 work program undertaken by Reliance Geological Services included silt sampling, rock sampling and reconnaissance geological mapping at a scale of 1:10,000. In 1992, four survey grids (grids A, A', B, C) were laid out and geological mapping was performed over much of the property and 27 rock and 259 soil samples were collected for analysis. The Choice (094C 146) and Tut 3 showings were contained within the Tut claims.

In 2005, Commander Resources Ltd. (formerly called Major General Resources) restaked the southwest part of the old Tut group as the Tut South (which covered the Ache (094C 147) and the Tut 6 (094C 136) occurrences) and the eastern part as the Tut. The 2005 Tut claim essentially covered the old (1991-92) Tut 2 claim. A brief program of prospecting and soil sampling was completed.

While the Choice occurrence is just south of the 2005 Tut claim and the Tut 3 is just to the west, some pertinent data is indicated in Major General’s 2005 assessment report (28252).