The Tagish Top showing is located on a ridgetop north of Teepee Peak about 55 kilometres west-northwest of Atlin. Access to the property is via helicopter from Atlin.

The showing area is underlain by phyllitic metasediments (quartzite) of the Devonian to Middle Triassic Boundary Range Metamorphic Suite close to the contact with granitic rocks of the Paleocene to Eocene Sloko-Hyder Plutonic Suite. A felsic dike(?) was also observed cutting across the ridge.

In 2006 a sample of a rusty granitic rock yielded 8.5 grams per tonne silver, 0.09 per cent lead, 0.5 per cent arsenic and 0.021 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 28929).

In 1989, several samples were taken by Cyprus Gold about 400 meters northeast of the 2006 Tagish Top sampling location along the same ridge. One sample (SC-R-020) of a felsic dike with disseminated pyrite assayed 5.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.22 gram per tonne gold, 0.07 per cent lead and 0.12 per cent arsenic; another sample (AS-R-020) taken of bleached and altered volcanic breccia with blebs and disseminations of arsenopyrite and traces of pyrite assayed 1.5 gram per tonne silver, 0.165 gram per tonne gold and 0.49 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 19438).

Work History

From 1988 to 1990 Cyprus Gold (Canada) Ltd conducted exploration programs (on their Teepee property (TP, Fill claims) which included the Crine (104M 081) and TP-Main (104M 048) prospects and at the same time conducted prospecting and sampling surveys over areas (such as the Key showing area) later held as the Llewellyn Property by XO Gold. These programs occurred in 1989, (Durfeld, 1989; Assessment Report 18766), 1989 (Cuttle, 1989; Assessment Report 19438) and in 1990, (Cuttle, 1990; Assessment Report 20790).

On behalf of XO Gold Resources Inc in 2006, limited prospecting and sampling was carried out in the 'Grissly’ Creek area. The area of the 2006 program was based on the targeting and prospecting of Landsat 7 anomalies that displayed significant areas of iron oxide and hydroxyl (clay) alteration. The program resulted in the collection of 8 rock, 10 soil and 4 stream samples (Assessment Report 29929).

See new MINFILE Bee Lake S6 (just east of Tagish Lake) for further details of the Llewellyn property. Also see new MINFILE 'Key', located about 3 kilometres to the southeast of the Tagish Top showing.