The Moss showing is located about 24 kilometres southeast of Dease Lake.
The area of the showing is regionally mapped as Upper Triassic, mainly volcanic rocks of the Stuhini Group. The rocks are, in part, altered and cut by Late Triassic granodiorite.
A coarse-grained mafic flow or sill contains magnetite, intermittently developed at the contacts. Chalcopyrite and locally finely disseminated pyrite occur in basalt.
Surface grab samples are reported to have yielded values of up to 0.113 per cent copper (Bowen, B.K. (2012-07-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project).
In 2012, two grab samples (975181 and 990551) yielded values of 2.023 and 2.122 per cent copper with 0.407 and 0.700 gram per tonne gold (Bowen, B.K. (2013-04-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project).
Work History
The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Gnat Pass (MINFILE 104I 001) occurrence and a completed regional work history can be found there.
During 1966 through 1971, Lytton Minerals Ltd. conducted geological, geochemical and geophysical surveys, trenching and drilling. During 1969 through 1971, extensive exploration programs included a few thousand metres of trenching and 47 percussion-drill holes but results of this work were never published.
The Lytton Property File Document 19795 contains 1969 mapping and analysis of copper in their trenching program. Three trenches over a 244 metres northwest trending ovate zone had continuous copper values of plus or minus 0.1 per cent over widths of 46.9 to 120.3 metres.
Trench 3: 12 metres of 0.27 per cent Cu at contact of tourmalinized feldspar porphyry with pyritized felsite and andesite; 12 metres of 0.10 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.07 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 15 metresof 0.10 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 7.6 metres of 0.27 per cent Cu in a fault zone contact; equals 51 metres of continuous Cu mineralization averaging 0.135 per cent.
Trench 4: 18.3 metres of 0.05 per cent Cu in a fault zone contact area with felsite; 12 metres of 0.10 per cent Cu in felsite; 12 metres of 0.17 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.12 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.27 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.07 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.07 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.07 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.05 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry in contact with basalt; 6 metres of 0.07 per cent Cu in basalt; equals 120.3 metres of continuous Cu mineralization averaging 0.104 per cent.
Trench 5: 12 metres of 0.12 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 12 metres of 0.10 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; 22.9 metres of 0.07 per cent Cu in tourmalinized feldspar porphyry; equals 46.9 metres of continuous Cu mineralization averaging 0.097 per cent.
In 1989, Equity Silver Mines Ltd. conducted a program of rock sampling and a 11 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic (VLF) survey on the area.
In 2011, Finsbury Exploration Ltd carried out exploration over the Property as part of a soil and silt sampling program over a much larger 168,983 hectare property area known as the Galaxie property.
In 2012, Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd, on the Galaxie property, conducted systematic soil and IP surveys over eight high-priority grids and two target areas identified by the 2011 stream sediment and soil geochemical results. This work included an IP survey over almost the entirety of tenure 512878 and the southeastern third of tenure 604847.
