The Area 1 (Thane Creek) occurrence is located approximately 66 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.
The showing area is underlain by intrusive rocks of the Early Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite.
A rock sample (#92342) of coarse-grained, leucocratic, equigranular diorite with 10 centimetre zones of up to 90 per cent magnetite with 10 per cent epidote assayed 1.23 per cent copper, 5.5 grams per tonne silver and 145 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 32106).
Work History
In 2009-10, C.O. Naas examined the provincial Regional Geochemical Survey data and MINFILE which led to the staking of the Thane Creek property tenures. A comprehensive compilation of historical exploration work was undertaken and identified four areas that indicated excellent potential for copper-gold mineralization. In 2010, a property visit was carried out and explored three of the target areas identified by the compilation program. Exploration consisted of geochemical sampling with collection of 10 silt samples and 69 rock samples.
In 2019, the British Columbia Geological Survey mapped northern Hogem batholith and surrounding areas. An assay sample of a vuggy quartz vein with malachite and chalcopyrite, hosted in Thane Creek suite diorite, was collected approximately 2 kilometres southeast of the Area 1 (Thane Creek) showing location. The assay yielded results of 8980 parts per million copper and 3330 parts per billion gold (Fieldwork 2019, page 44).
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. Five rock samples from the Cirque occurrence area are reported to have yielded from 2.19 to 8.70 per cent copper with 0.138 to 2.72 grams per tonne gold, whereas a sample taken approximately 350 metres to the southeast of the previous samples yielded 0.725 per cent copper and 0.128 gram per tonne gold (Vanderwart Consulting Inc. [2021-07-12]: Technical Report on the Thane Copper-Gold Project, Omineca Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada).
