​Geo-mapping for Energy and Minerals Program, in partnership with the NWT Geoscience Office and the Saskatchewan Geologicical Survey will conduct a three-year geology reasearch project in Southeastern most NWT, commencing in late June 2015.

The aim of the project is to fill in major gaps in geoscience understanding in Canada's North where geological data does not currently exist. Presently, it is unknown what the geology of the area comprises. The bedrock has never been mapped, it wa laat examined in 1958 with a single helicopter landing every five miles. The surficial geology, relating to the transport of surficial sediments by glaciers, has never been studied.