The Target B occurrence occupies a 2 kilometre diameter zone in the east central portion of the Tahsis claim group and is located 1.5 kilometres south of the Leiner River.

The area straddles the contact of the Late Triassic Karmutsen volcanics, primarily basalt and andesite, and the Devonian Quatsino limestone. These have been intruded by local quartz diorite of the Eocene Mount Washington Intrusive Suite and by Middle Jurassic Island Intrusions of various sizes. The zone lies to the east of a major north trending fault.

Locally, a brecciated quartz carbonate vein, approximately 15 centimetres wide, with weakly disseminated pyrite is hosted in altered volcanics.

Work History

During 1981 through 1986, the property was explored by various companies. At this time, several programs were carried out involving heavy mineral sampling, rock and stream sediment geochemistry, 1:10,000 scale geological mapping and property wide rock chip sampling. In 2007, Grand Portage Resources Limited carried out a property wide program of silt and soil sampling, rock sampling, and limited airborne geophysical surveys. This work identified an anomalous zone of consistently elevated silt geochemical values within a 1.5 kilometre radius of the major north trending fault.

In 2011, Gold Ridge Exploration completed a regional geochemical sampling program on the Tahsis property. A grab sample (TA11-GWR04) of mineralized vein material returned 738 parts per billion gold and 146.5 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 32787).

In 2013, 2015 and 2016, Sojourn Ventures Inc. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, stream sediment and soil) sampling on the Tahsis property. Two soil cluster anomalies were identified over Target B. A sample from a vuggy quartz pod with copper oxides hosted in basalts assayed 1.075 per cent copper (Henneberry, R.T. (2018-02-05): 43-101 Technical Report – Tahsis Property).

In 2017, Qualitas Holdings Corp. completed a minor program of rock sampling on the Tahsis property. A sample (E07515) from a carbonate vein with malachite assayed 0.619 per cent copper (Henneberry, R.T. (2018-02-05): 43-101 Technical Report – Tahsis Property). In 2018 and 2019, Cross River Ventures Corp. completed a program of soil sampling and 5.5 line kilometres of Induced Polarization surveying over an existing logging road in the Target B and Target E areas identified areas of higher resistivity and coincidental chargeability highs.