The Tuppie showing occurs on the western flank of Mount Allard, 3.6 kilometres north of Nelson River and 8 kilometres west of Kitsumkalum Lake, 34 kilometres northwest of Terrace, B.C. Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. discovered it in 2003 while prospecting an area that had recently been exposed by retreating ice. Numerous mineralized zones occur in the area: Tuppie (upper and lower), East Tuppie, Cirque and Cliff.

The area is underlain by greywacke and siltstone intruded by numerous dioritic and granodioritic sills. A small granodiorite plug lies immediately to the east of the showings.

The Lower Tuppie is characterized as mostly rubble to subcrop and consists of an area at least 400 metres by 40 metres containing numerous laminated veins, up to 0.7 metre wide, and stockwork and hydrothermal breccia zones. Some of these zones exhibit highly vuggy, box-work quartz, and others contain colloform and weakly crustiform quartz textures.

The Upper Tuppie zone is concentrated around two main veins, up to 1 metre thick, that are surrounded by stockwork and hydrothermal breccia. Significant limonitic, vuggy zones occur in the quartz. Colloform-crustiform quartz textures are present. Signficant galena, up to 5 per cent by volume, occurs with lessser arsenopyrite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. These veins have a minimum of 200-metre strike length. The major veins and breccia zones in the Tuppie area strike approximately 320 degrees and have dips to the northeast of between 50 and 80 degrees.

The east Tuppie is a moderately limonitic, breccia vein and stockwork zone up to 0.5 metre wide, with a strike oriented 342 degrees and dips 48 degrees to the northeast.

The Cirque zone has a number of breccia veins and stockwork zones up to 0.5 metre wide, in addition to a significant number of dikes. The mineralized veins have more massive textures and coarser-grained quartz than the Tuppie zone. The dykes in this area strike between 80 degrees and 90 degrees, have near-vertical dips and widths between 0.1 and 1 metre. They have varying compositions, but are mostly granodioritic near their margins, become progressively more felsic inwards and have coarse quartz dominating the centres. Some dikes have pegmatitic textures with coarse-grained biotite. The northwest-striking, northeast dipping mineralized veins cut the dykes. The Cirque zone is on strike with the Tuppie zone.

The Cliff zone is reported to be located south of the Tuppie zone. In 1998, a sample is reported to have yielded 0.6 gram per tonne gold and 25.6 grams per tonne silver (Daignault, P.M., Sharp, R.J. (2007-12-27): 2007 Exploration and Geological Report for the Kalum Property).

Work History

In 2003, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. had acquired the 500-unit Kalum property to cover the Allard stock, a 4 by 11 kilometre intrusion that has been mapped west of Kitsumkalum Lake. The Kalum property encompasses several historically documented occurrences referred to in their 2003 Assessment Report 27417: Kalum (103I 019), Burn (103I 211), Quartz Silver (103I 018), Allard (103I 151), Misty (103I 213), Chris (103I 174), Martin (103I 020) and Hat (103I 173). Several new discoveries were also described. Grab samples from the Lower and Upper Tuppie zones yielded up to 1.42 and 3.11 grams per tonne gold with 235.4 and 975.2 grams per tonne silver, respectively. Also at this time, grab samples from the Cirque zone yielded 10.1 grams per tonne gold and 14.2 grams per tonne silver (WWW http://www.eagleplains.bc.ca).

In 2004, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. continued exploration for an intrusion-related gold deposit on its Kalum property. The program comprised a 1500-line kilometre airborne geophysical survey, on-the-ground evaluation of targets and the drilling of 19 holes, totalling 1958 metres. The geophysical survey recovered magnetic and time-domain electromagnetic data.

In 2005, Eagle Plains Resources completed a program of soil, silt and rock sampling and geological mapping on the area. A grab sample (JCKMV014) from the Tuppie zone is reported to have assayed 10.6 grams per tonne gold, 12,109 grams per tonne silver and 0.23 per cent lead, while a grab sample from the north extension of the Tuppie vein system yielded 18.0 grams per tonne gold, 1088 grams per tonne silver and 5.9 per cent lead (Daignault, P.M., Sharp, R.J. (2007-12-27): 2007 Exploration and Geological Report for the Kalum Property).

In 2007, Mountain Capital Inc. optioned the property and in 2008 undertook a program of soil and rock sampling, a 4.1 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and 11 diamond drill holes on the Burn (MINFILE 103I 211) occurrence area. The option was terminated in May of 2009.

In 2009, Windstorm Resources Inc. entered into a Letter of Intent with Eagle Plains to earn a 60 per cent interest in the property and completed a program of prospecting, geochemical sampling and an induced polarization survey on the area. Rock sampling yielded up to 983.0 grams per tonne gold and 502 grams per tonne silver from a sample (DKKMR002) located north west of the Cirque zone, while a sample (AHKMR038) from the Cirque zone assayed 0.12 gram per tonne gold, 100 grams per tonne silver, 2.5 per cent lead and 7.2 per cent zinc (Murton, J.W. (2009-11-20): 2009 Exploration and Geological Report for the Kalum Property). Two Channel samples (AHKMR043 and 044) from the Tuppie(?) zone yielded 0.7 and 1.69 grams per tonne gold with 190 and 2.5 grams per tonne silver over 0.3 and 0.8 metres, while two other samples (TTKMRD12 and AHKMVD044) located north and south east of the Tuppie zone yielded 1.59 and 1.69 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Murton, J.W. (2009-11-20): 2009 Exploration and Geological Report for the Kalum Property).

In 2010, a program of geological mapping and six diamond drill holes, totalling 419.11 metres, were completed on the Tuppie-Cirque occurrence. No high-grade mineralization was reported to have been intercepted by the drill holes with the best intercept yielding 0.221 gram per tonne gold over 1.0 metre of minor fracture controlled pyrite and arsenopyrite mineralization hosted by a greywacke in hole KCZ10006 located on the Cirque zone (Hutter, J.M. (2012-02-22): Technical Report for the Kalum Property).

In early 2012, Clemson Resources Corp. entered into an Option Agreement with Eagle Plains Resources to acquire a 60 per cent interest in the property.

In 2019, Gold Fountain Resources Inc. undertook a program of rock, soil and silt sampling several kilometres east of the Tuppie prospect, resulting in the discovery of two new gold showings (Poznan and Opole) on their Kalum Gold property (Assessment Report 38630).