The Dragon occurrence is located near a ridge crest about 9 kilometres northwest of Tenakihi Lakes and approximately 74 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.
At the showing, a 2-metre-wide, steeply dipping aplitic granite dike cuts volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Takla Group which in the area consists of augite phyric agglomerates, basalts and tuffs of the Plughat Mountain Formation. The occurrence is close to the contact with intrusive rocks of the Early Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite about 400 metres south.
Minor malachite staining on some fracture surfaces, minor amounts of epidote and up to 5 per cent pyrite blebs occur in the dike.
In 1991, a grab sample of pyritized aplitic granite from this location assayed 0.082 per cent copper and 0.12 gram per tonne gold (Open File 1992-11, Map Sheet 2, Map Number 40).
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 Dragon occurrence. 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 Dragon 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 1.7 kilometres southwest of the Dragon showing, for further details of a related work history.
