The Tribe showing is underlain by volcanic and sedimentary rocks tentatively correlated with the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation of the Hazelton Group. More recent compilations (such as MapPlace) indicate a correlation with the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. Host rocks consist of cherts, andesite agglomerates and andesite tuffs intruded by small syenite stocks. In areas of strong sericitic alteration, are quartz and quartz-carbonate veins and stockworks that locally carry pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, sphalerite, and galena.
The best gold assays were from samples of a stockwork zone 13 by 30 metres across. The best vein assay from this zone was reported as 12.5 grams per tonne gold and 3.1 grams per tonne silver over 0.4 metre. Another sample from the same area contained 47.7 grams per tonne silver over 1.2 metres. A second vein 30 metres to the northeast was sampled (grab) and assayed 28.3 grams per tonne gold and 34.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 16479).
WORK HISTORY
Due to the remote location and high alpine setting, work in the Orion property area has been relatively minor. In 1987-88 the Hat claims of Jantri Resources, covering much the same ground as the later day Orion claims, saw limited prospecting, sampling (253 rock samples) and geological mapping (Assessment Report 16479, 19264). The 1987 program consisted of four days geological field mapping and 19 days of prospecting. This work resulted in the discovery of a stockwork zone about 30 by 13 metres in dimension, within which the best vein ran 31.37 grams per tonne gold over 1.6 metres (the showing was named the "No. 13" (MINFILE, (Tribe 104B 201)) (Assessment Report 16479). Almost all of the Hat claims were subsequently allowed to expire. In 1991, Jantri conducted a program of mapping and prospecting on the Hat claims; a total of 15 rock, 16 soil and 10 stream sediment samples were collected at the time (Assessment Report 21978).
In 1994, Teuton Resources Corp. acquired the key showings as the Orion 9-11 and Weasle claims. Prospecting, rock geochemical sampling and trenching were carried out on the property identifying a number of new mineral occurrences the most important of which was the Cat-in-the-Hat showing. Trenching of the latter returned an interval grading 2.54 grams per tonne and 1.36 per cent arsenic across 13 metres in an outcrop of brecciated rhyolite. Further to the south, small quartz carbonate veins were sampled carrying silver values up to 2434 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 23885).
In 1995, Teuton located the previously sampled “No. 13” showing described by Jantri Resources in the 1980s. The MINFILE database called No.13 the Tribe showing. The 1995 work indicated that the "No. 13” showing consists of 0.5 cm wide massive arsenopyrite/pyrite veinlets associated with a quartz-calcite stockwork in sheared argillites. The aerial extent of the showing appears to be no more than 4 meters in diameter (Assessment Report 24397).
The 2006 work on the Orion, Big Gold and Eskay Rift properties was part of a larger, summer program involving exploration of a number of Teuton properties located in the Stewart region. A total of 57 rock samples were collected.
In 2007, Teuton Resources reported on the completion of 1 of 5 thin-walled BQ diamond-drill hole on the Cat-in-the-Hat showing (104B 672) which totalled 211 meters depth. A small rock geochemical reconnaissance survey was undertaken. The hole was said to have proved the continuity of anomalous gold-arsenic mineralization to depth in the 1994 Cat-in-the-Hat showing.
