The Titan Queen occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1470 metres on a southeast-facing slope, approximately 500 metres east of the east end of Stumbles Lakes .

The Promontory Hills-Craigmont mine area is underlain by a complex northwest-trending, steeply dipping volcanic pile of Upper Triassic Nicola Group rocks, bounded to the north by the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek Batholith and unconformably overlain by the Upper Cretaceous Kingsvale Group. Most of the area is covered by thick gravel overburden. Regional faults trend north-northwest.

The occurrence area is underlain by quartz diorite to granodiorite assigned to the Border phase of the Guichon Creek Batholith (Map 30). Potassium-feldspar–enriched dioritic rocks in fault or shear zones are intensely chloritized and silicified and host tourmaline veins. Mineralization in the veins consists of chalcopyrite, bornite, magnetite and malachite. Chalcopyrite also occurs as weak disseminations in adjacent outcrops.

Later work (2015) identified a series of three east-west–trending historical trenches exposing malachite and azurite mineralization; dump material comprised malachite-chalcopyrite-magnetite skarn.

Work History

In 1957, Craigmont Mines Ltd. completed a 20.3 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Loe claims. The following year, Birkett Creek Mine completed a 20.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Paystin claims. Also at this time, Craigmont completed a 11.6 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area immediately west of the occurrence as the Hec North property.

In 1961, Peel Resources completed a program of soil sampling and a ground magnetic survey on the area as the Peel claims. Also at this time, Friday Mines completed a program of soil sampling and a ground magnetic survey on the area immediately east of the occurrence as the Ron 1-8 claims. In 1967, Polaris Mines Ltd. completed a 40.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the Ron claims. In 1969, Peel Resources completed a soil sampling program on the area immediately north of the occurrence as the Peel property.

In 1970, Polaris Mines Ltd. completed a program of soil sampling and a 11.4 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area immediately north of the occurrence as the Ron claims. In 1977, Craigmont Mines Ltd. completed a single 722.4-metre diamond drill hole on the area as the Green group of claims.

In 1985, Craigmont Mines Ltd. completed a single diamond drillhole, totalling 445.6 metres, on the Merchants 7 claim, located approximately 850 metres south of the occurrence.

In 2000, Ahura Mining Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling on the area as the Gord 1-10 claims.

In 2012, Huldra Silver Inc. completed a 903 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Thule property. This work isolated six magnetic anomalies (A through F) with the potential for magnetite skarn development, similar to the nearby Craigmont (MINFILE 092ISE035) deposit.

In 2015, Nicola Mining Inc. completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the area as the Thule Copper-Iron property. A dump grab sample (310515-THU-009) of quartz-tourmaline–altered diorite breccia with chalcopyrite and malachite from historical trenches on the Titan Queen occurrence assayed 0.908 per cent copper and 11.6 per cent iron (Assessment Report 36141).

In 2016, Nicola Mining Inc. completed a program of prospecting, rock sampling, geological mapping and five diamond drill holes, totalling 1063.7 metres, on the Thule Copper property. Chip and channel sampling of historical trenches yielded 0.30, 0.56 and 0.74 per cent copper over 16, 10 and 6 metres from the no. 1, 2 and 3 trenches, respectively, whereas drilling yielded 1.3 per cent copper over 1.78 metres in hole THU-004 and 0.55 per cent copper over 2.9 metres in hole THU-003 (Assessment Report 36844).

In 2017, Nicola Mining Inc. and Clibetre Exploration Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, a 27.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey, a 24.5 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey, 29 rotary drill holes, totalling 392.0 metres, and 5 diamond drill holes, totalling 2994.7 metres on the Thule Copper property.

In 2018, Nicola Mining Inc. completed a 9.0 line-kilometre ground magnetic and induced polarization survey, 70 percussion drill holes, totalling 1540.0 metres, and 16 diamond drill holes, totalling 6438.5 metres, on the area as the Craigmont property.

In 2019, Nicola Mining Inc. completed a program of soil sampling and 5 diamond drill holes, totalling 3649.0 metres, on the area as the New Craigmont property.