The Amy-Carmen (Kin) occurrence is located on an approximately north-trending ridge, southwest of Kinbasket Lake and approximately 13 kilometres southeast of Trident Mountain.

Regionally, the target area is underlain by fine clastic, calcareous and highly metamorphic sedimentary rocks of the Neoproterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, which have been intruded by a series of syenite dikes and sills possibly related to the Upper Devonian Trident Creek alkaline complex to the northwest. The syenites were emplaced circa 380 Ma (uranium-lead isotope date from zircons, Open File 1991-10).

Locally, at the Amy-Carmen area, a syenite occurs as pinch and swell sills hosted in isoclinally folded amphibolite-grade metasediments of the Neoproterozoic Horsethief Creek Group and comprises a series of 'syenite' sills, the largest of which is approximately 15 metres thick. Tight folding of the strata has resulted in fold repetition of the syenite sills and generated a repeated stack of mineralized syenite that is approximately 250 metres wide when measured across the main northwest-trending gneissosity.

A second parallel zone of mineralized syenite, quartz veins and associated alteration occurs approximately 500 metres south of the Amy-Carmen trend and is referred to as the Carmen trend.

Field and thin-section descriptions of the mineralized syenite indicate a very fine to very coarse-grained, limonite- and/or hematite-stained, gneissic granite (quartz syenite) comprising feldspar>biotite>>quartz with occasional visible molybdenite, black-brown euhedral columns (allanite) and subangular equant red crystals of monazite.

Work History

In 2010, Zimtu Capital Corp., in conjunction with Cathro Resources Ltd. and First Gold Exploration Inc., completed a program of prospecting and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as the Kin claims. This work identified an approximately 700 by 700 metre area of banded (gneissic) syenite boulders yielding up to 4.469 per cent total rare earth elements and 1.888 per cent niobium (samples JBKNR004 and JBKNR005; Assessment Report 31859).

In 2011, Cazador Resources Ltd. conducted a further program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock and silt) sampling and a 1939.9 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and scintillometer survey on the Kin-Trident property. A total of 43 rock samples (including 23 channel samples) taken over an approximately 1-kilometre strike length of the Amy-Carmen quartz syenite trend yielded an average of 1.007 per cent total rare earth elements, 0.268 per cent niobium and 0.283 per cent molybdenum with maximum values of 7.406 per cent total rare earth elements, 2.113 per cent niobium and 6.290 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 32655). Also at this time, nine samples collected from the parallel Carmen trend area yielded values of up to 10.80 per cent total rare earth elements and 3.473 per cent niobium (Assessment Report 32655).

In 2022, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the area as part of the Adamant property. Grab samples from the Army-Carmen zone yielded up to 1.627 per cent total rare earth elements, 0.054 per cent niobium, 1.44 per cent molybdenum and 0.250 gram per tonne gold (samples JMCADR007 and MHADR001), whereas a grab sample (KMADR003) taken to the northwest of the Amy-Carmen zone, referred to as the Maro zone, yielded 4.33 per cent total rare earth elements 2.569 per cent niobium and 0.343 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 40800).

In 2024, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. completed a further minor program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and silt) sampling on the Adamant property. Samples from the northern strike extension of the Amy-Carmen zone yielded up to 4.520 per cent total rare earth elements and 5.430 per cent niobium, whereas samples from parallel mafic-syenite sills and dikes from the S-Carmen zone assayed up to 2.584 per cent total rare earth elements and 0.071 per cent niobium (Assessment Report 42329).