The Intrepid occurrence is located about 12 kilometres northwest of Tenakihi Lakes, approximately 77 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

At the showing, chalcopyrite and malachite occur as disseminations and fracture fillings in ankerite and quartz veins. The veins occur in several locations within aplitic monzonite of the Early Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite near the contact with volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Plughat Mountain Formation (Takla Group).

In 1991, a grab sample assayed 0.225 per cent copper (Open File 1992-11, Map Sheet 2, Map Number 37).

Work History

Major General Resources (later renamed Commander Resources Ltd.) staked the Mate claims over the area in the early 1990s. In 1991, claims operator Swannell Minerals Corp. conducted a program of reconnaissance mapping and rock and silt sampling. Four rock samples from a zone on the Mate 1 claims assayed greater than 0.2 per cent copper. Swannell’s 1991 work encompassed several MINFILE showings on the Mate claims including the Intrepid. In 1992, follow-up work by Swannell included geological mapping, and soil and rock sampling. Soil sampling was performed over the previously identified copper anomaly.

In 2012, Commander Resources Ltd. completed in-fill sampling of previous geochemistry work on their Mate property which covers the Intrepid showing. A total of 10 soil samples, 5 rock samples and 3 stream silt samples were taken and analyzed.

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.

See Matetlo (094C 018), located 2.4 kilometres east of the Intrepid showing, for further details of a common work history.