The Tina claims were staked in 1979 and a program of soil sampling was completed.
The showing in Lower Byron Creek consists of a small zone of irregular patches of malachite, azurite, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite-tennantite (XRD identification) hosted in massive rhyolite of the Lower Jurassic Nilkitkwa Formation (Hazelton Group). Further upstream, several barren, 5 to 10 centimetres thick quartz-carbonate veins occur along shear zones. Several grab samples (1986) revealed no significant gold or silver values.
_________________________________________________________ FIELDWORK 1986, p. 216 TABLE 15 - TINA COPPER PROSPECT ANALYSES (all values in p.p.m.) Au Ag Cu Zn Mo Hg As Sb 49-1 <0.017 <10 18 200 9 0.06 <20 <10 50-3 <0.017 <10 18 200 9 0.06 <20 <10 50-5 0.020 <10 27 136 3 0.04 <20 <10 55-3 <0.017 <10 6 46 5 0.02 <20 <10 50-6 <0.020 <10 5500 1200 13 18.00 4900 743_________________________________________________________
FIELDWORK 1986, p. 216
TABLE 15 - TINA COPPER PROSPECT ANALYSES
(all values in p.p.m.)
Au Ag Cu Zn Mo Hg As Sb
49-1 <0.017 <10 18 200 9 0.06 <20 <10
50-3 <0.017 <10 18 200 9 0.06 <20 <10
50-5 0.020 <10 27 136 3 0.04 <20 <10
55-3 <0.017 <10 6 46 5 0.02 <20 <10
50-6 <0.020 <10 5500 1200 13 18.00 4900 743
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note: Samples 50-3, 50-5, and 50-6 represent barren quartz veins in shear zones from the Tina prospect. 49-1 Altered volcanic, Byron Creek; 50-3 Quartz vein, Tina prospect, Byron Creek; 50-5 Quartz vein, Tina prospect, Byron Creek; 55-3 Quartz vein, Tina prospect, Byron Creek; 50-6 Quartz vein, Tina prospect, Byron Creek.
In 1989, Teeshin Resources Ltd. and Canadian-United Minerals, Inc. conducted geological and geochemical work in the area.
