The CAYENNE showing is located 5.7 kilometres northeast of the community of Hixon, near the confluence of Colgrove and Hixon creeks. The Quesnelle Gold Quartz Mine property includes the historical Quesnelle Quartz Mine (093G 015), the Pioneer (093G 013), Halo (093G 090) and Cayenne showings and part of the North Hixon (093G 082) occurrence.

Regionally, the area is underlain by augite porphyry basaltic greenstone and sedimentary rocks of the Middle to Upper Triassic Nicola Group in the west and mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic rocks of the Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group in the east. Ultramafic rocks of the Slide Mountain terrane locally occur along the Eureka thrust, which marks this terrane boundary. The Nicola Group is intruded by a syenite-diorite/gabbro body, assigned to the Early Jurassic Polaris Ultramafic suite along the western Property boundary and the Snowshoe Group is intruded by the Early Cretaceous Naver pluton in the eastern Property area. These are locally overlain by conglomerate and coarse clastic rocks of an un-named Oligocene to Pliocene formation.

The Cayenne area is underlain by volcaniclastic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Witch Lake succession (Takla-Nicola Group) and mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic rocks of the Middle to Upper Triassic Inzana Lake succession Takla-Nicola Group.

Locally, a 0.6- to 1.2-metre-wide quartz vein and several smaller quartz stringers cut highly altered and weathered quartz sericite schist. Gold values have been reported from both the quartz veins and from the schist. The wallrock is quartz sericite schist and this would seem to indicate that this showing is underlain by the Barkerville terrane; however, due to the lack of detailed mapping in this area, it is not clear in which terrane the showing occurs.

In 1918, a 41 metre adit was driven at the Cayenne showing, with a quartz vein sample returning 6.86 grams per tonne gold.

In 1929, a grab sample from a 53 metre adit extension assayed 8.22 grams per tonne gold and 13.71 grams per tonne silver (Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources Annual Report 1929 p. 189).

In 1930, underground sampling yielded up to $82.80 dollars per tonne or 137 grams per tonne gold from the crosscut, whereas the average of 12 samples taken over an average length of 1.5 metres of the main tunnel yielded $14.56 or 24.1 grams per tonne gold (Property File - E.G. Davidson [1930-01-01]: Sketch Plan Map Showing Cayenne Group and Vancouver Gold Group of Mineral Claims - Hixon Creek). Also at this time, sampling of a quartz vein exposed in an opencut to the north, across Hixon Creek, yielded 3.6 grams per tonne gold (Property File - E.G. Davidson [1930-01-01]: Sketch Plan Map Showing Cayenne Group and Vancouver Gold Group of Mineral Claims - Hixon Creek).

In 1984, trenching on the Raven claim yielded up to 7.20 grams per tonne gold over a 5-metre interval (Northern Miner, June 7, 1984).

The area has been explored since the 1880s in conjunction with the nearby Quesnel Quartz (MINFILE 093G 015) past-producing mine. In 1918, the Belmont claim group consisted of the Mont Damon, Belmont, and Virginia claims, and was owned by Messrs. McLarty and Gillis. An adit was driven 41 metres. This same area was restaked as the Ceyanne group in 1926 by Messrs. Hahn and Strbac. In 1929, the Ceyanne group was optioned by Cariboo Lode Mines, Limited, and the existing adit was extended to 53 metres with an 8.1-metre crosscut. A number of shallow shafts are reported to north across Hixon Creek.

In the 1970s Bethlehem Copper carried out surface geochemical surveys and drilled four holes on the property. During 1980 through 1984, Taiga Consultants carried out geological, geochemical, geophysical surveys and trenching on behalf of Golden Rule Resources. In 1987 and 1988, Noranda Explorations examined the area and completed programs of diamond drilling and trenching.

In 2004, Cayenne Gold Mines Ltd. drilled three diamond drill holes, totalling 273.4 metres. The holes were all drilled from the same site, located approximately 500 metre east of the Cayenne occurrence. All three diamond drill holes encountered a Tertiary chaotic conglomerate, a relatively little-known rock type in the area, for their entire length. Values in gold were not significant, with core/sludge samples containing up to 0.02 parts per million gold (Assessment Report 27776).

During 2012 through 2017, A. Justason and T. Hatton completed programs of prospecting, rock sampling and ground SP geophysical surveys on the area. Also, in 2017 and 2018, Standard Drilling and Engineering Ltd. completed an induced polarization survey and a LiDAR and ortho-imagery survey.

The Quesnelle Gold Quartz Mine property, including the Cayenne showing, was acquired by Golden Cariboo Resources in 2019. The initial exploration program conducted for Golden Cariboo Resources Ltd., consisted of 487m3 of excavator trenching and pitting, with geological mapping and sampling, minor property mapping and sampling and improving 2 km of the south access road. Golden Cariboo Resources continued programs of drilling, mapping and sampling on the Main zone, North Hixon zone and the new Halo zone from 2023 through 2025.

In 2025 a new discovery, referred to as the Km Uno zone, approximately 500 metres northeast of the Cayenne showing, was detected in mineralized volcanic subcrop through targeted bedrock mapping and sampling aligning with airborne resistivity, ground conductivity anomalies, and a strong gold-silver-arsenic soil anomaly. Two assays of this subcrop revealed 1.1 grams per tonne gold with 8.0 grams per tonne silver and 0.57 gram per tonne gold with 3.3 grams per tonne silver (PR REL Golden Cariboo Sept. 9, 2025).

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Quesnel Quartz (MINFILE 093G 015) occurrence and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.