The Canyon Creek occurrence is located on a west-facing slope of a south-flowing tributary of Delano Creek, approximately 3.5 kilometres south-southeast of Yedhe Lakes.

The occurrence is in a region known as the Muskwa Anticlinorium, a major north-northwest–trending structure characterized by moderate folding and thrust faulting. The structure consists of Middle Proterozoic (Helikian) rocks of the Muskwa Assemblage, as well as Paleozoic rocks (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1343A; Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, Volume G-2, pages 111, 639). All belong to Ancestral North America (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1713A). Northeast- to northwest-trending Proterozoic diabase dikes are common in the region.

Locally, a greater than 300 metre section of clean quartzite is overlain by sandy dolomite, separated by a 1-2 metre bed of dolomitic conglomerate. The conglomerate is locally coated by thick malachite; rare pebbles of vein quartz or massive chalcopyrite were noted up to 100 metres downslope. The malachite coating on pebbles within the dolomitic conglomerate appears to be a recent precipitate within a permeable and reactive bed, rather than due to weathering of Proterozoic stratabound copper mineralization.

Work History

During 1970 through 1973, Tanjo Mines Ltd. completed programs of soil sampling, ground geophysical (magnetic and electromagnetic) surveys and a 110.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the By claims.

In 1979 and 1980, Halferdahl & Associates Ltd. completed a regional program of soil sampling on the area as the Tuchodi property.

In 1994, a minor program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling was completed on the area as the Tuchodi Basin property. A float sample (626954) of quartzite with specks of bornite and malachite staining from the occurrence area assayed 0.27 per cent copper (Assessment Report 24603).

In 2005, Twenty-Seven Capital Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and a 9002.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Muskwa property. Also at this time, Aries Resource Corp. and Action Minerals Inc. completed a program of prospecting and sampling on the area as the Sara claims of the Trident Copper project. In 2006, Bradford Mineral Explorations Ltd. conducted 4467.0 line-kilometres airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Trident property.

In 2007, Action Minerals Inc. and Aries Resource Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping, 7 diamond drill holes, totalling 274.0 metres, and a ground electromagnetic (VLF) survey on the Missy and Angel claim groups of the Trident Copper property.