The Thane occurrence is located at the confluence of Pluto and Thane creeks, 10 kilometres northwest of Uslika Lake, and approximately 57 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing or 200 kilometres northwest of Fort St. James. The occurrence lies centrally within the Omineca Belt in the Quesnel Terrane.
Upper Triassic Plughat Mountain Formation (Takla Group) andesitic and basaltic volcanic rocks host copper and gold mineralization. Fault, fracture, and shear zones up to 1 metre wide, within the Takla rocks adjacent to quartz monzonitic rocks of the Early Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite, are mineralized with disseminated and massive pods of chalcopyrite, pyrite, magnetite and specularite.
The showing appears to be continuous with the Pluto occurrence (094C 019) which lies 3.6 kilometres north-northwest. Of the five rock samples collected on the reconnaissance traverse in 1980, sample TH-10 reported 375 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 9242). This highly anomalous value suggested that the economic grades at the Pluto prospect may be related to a fault-controlled zone of mineralization that extends from the Thane occurrence to the Pluto occurrence, which is overburden covered throughout most of its length.
In 1980, Golden Rule Resources Ltd. conducted one reconnaissance sampling and mapping traverse between the Pluto showing and the Thane showing at the confluence with Thane Creek.
In 1990, Lysander Gold Corp. completed four exploration contour traverses, in a west to east direction, on the Cat 13 and 14 claims. A total of 116 samples (78 soils, 11 talus fines, 11 stream sediments and 5 seepage sediments) were collected in the survey. A total of 13 rock chip samples were collected from outcrop features such as veins, sulphide content and/or alteration. Some sampling occurred near the confluence of Thane Creek and “Pluto” Creek where the Thane occurrence is reported to be. However, no mention is made of visiting this showing.
See Pluto (094C 019) for details of work done on related mineralization and claim ownership.
In 2013 and 2014, Canasil Resources Inc. completed a remote sensing data acquisition survey for the Vega project covering approximately 11,407 hectares of surface area, consisting of 34 mineral tenures. The Vega property encompasses six occurrences: Pluto, 094C 019; Thane; Vega, 094C 021; MJW, 094C 108; Bottle, 094C 110; and Ten, 094C 134.