The Ootes occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1880 metres on an east-facing slope in the western headwaters of Thane Creek.

The area is underlain by quartz monzonitic to monzogranitic intrusive rocks of the Lower Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite.

Locally, an intrusive hosts a 0.20-metre-wide quartz vein hosting chalcopyrite, pyrite and possible specularite and chalcocite. The vein has been traced for at least 5 metres along strike.

Work History

In 2018, the Ootes vein was identified by a BCGS geologist. A sample from the vein assayed 0.90 per cent copper and 3.33 grams per tonne gold (Vanderwart Consulting Inc. [2021-07-12]: Technical Report on the Thane Copper-Gold Project, Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada).

In 2020, Interra Copper Corp. completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, soil and stream sediment) sampling and a 14.0 line-kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the Thane property. Five samples, collected over a several-hundred-metre-square area, yielded from 1.48 to 3.26 per cent copper and 0.003 to 77.80 grams per tonne gold, whereas other samples, taken from two locations approximately 750 and 1200 metres north of the Ootes occurrence area, yielded values of up to 0.532 and 1.92 per cent copper with 0.710 and 0.462 gram per tonne gold, respectively (Vanderwart Consulting Inc. [2021-07-12]: Technical Report on the Thane Copper-Gold Project, Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada). No sample descriptions were provided.

In 2021, a rock sample (35932) from the Ootes occurrence assayed 2.24 per cent copper, 17.3 grams per tonne silver and 6.42 grams per tonne gold (Vanderwart Consulting Inc. [2021-07-12]: Technical Report on the Thane Copper-Gold Project, Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada).