Work History
 
The area was prospected in 1980 by Cordilleran Engineering for Regional Resources Ltd but no claims were staked. In 1996 Fairfield Minerals Ltd carried out reconnaissance stream sediment sampling and follow-up prospecting programs in the area, the results of which led the company to stake Cl claims 1-100 (YB89142). After an initial program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical sampling and airborne geophysics, the company staked Cl claims 101-122 in Jul/97. Later in 1997, Fairfield carried out IP surveying, geochemical sampling, prospecting and excavator trenching. In 2007, Tarsis Capital Corp purchased the property and carried out airborne magnetic and VTEM surveys. In 2008, the company completed a soil sampling survey and in 2009, interpreted the geophysical data from the 2007 program.

Capsule Geology
 
The occurrence lies within a belt of Yukon-Tanana Terrane rocks. This belt of rocks is part of an accreted island arc assemblage consisting of biomodal volcanics, coeval plutons and sedimentary rocks, as well as younger Jurassic and Cretaceous intrusions. The main units in the area are felsic metavolcanic rocks, (quartz-muscovite schist) and intermediate to mafic volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks of the Devono-Mississippian Finlayson Group, and plutonic rocks of the Early Jurassic Long Lake Suite (granodiorite). The occurrence itself is underlain by Finlayson Group quartz-muscovite schist. 

Initial prospecting in the area by Fairfield in 1996 outlined several kill zones where semi-massive and disseminated bands of pyrite and chalcopyrite were identified within the felsic metavolcanic stratigraphy. In 1997, a 400 x 800 m copper-in-soil anomaly (Cu >150 ppm) was identified; the peak copper value was 6324 ppm Cu. A sample of schist from the anomaly area contained disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite and assayed 12,112 ppm Cu. Several samples within a 250 m radius of this sample assayed from 3398 ppm Cu to 8674 ppm Cu. One rock sample 1.6 km west-northwest of the occurrence (T343-R1) was collected in a quartz-carbonate alteration zone and assayed 673 ppb Au.
 
The 1997 IP and resistivity survey on the Cabin Lake grid delineated a series of chargeability and resistivity highs at the upslope limit of the large copper-in-soil anomaly. A property-wide VTEM survey in 2007 did not identify significant EM conductors associated with the geochemically anomalous volcaniclastic strata in the west central part of the claim block. 
 
Lead isotopic studies (2002) on galena collected from the area yielded a broad Devonian to Mississippian model age, thus providing strong support for a syngenetic origin for the mineralization in this area. The origin of the copper mineralization is unknown, but may be associated with a hydrothermal alteration halo of the nearby Jurassic intrusion, which contains chalcopyrite-molybenite-pyrite bearing quartz veinlets. The proximity of the intrusion may also partially account for the sericite and chlorite alteration, and local silification documented in the trenches on the property.