• New Zone Copper

    The Thor deposit lies in the northwest part of a much larger property called the 'Expanded Property'. Outside of the Thor epithermal Mineral Resource area are a number of other prospects, mines and mineral occurrences that have seen various levels of exploration over the past 130 years. In 2026, Taranis will systematically evaluate a large number of these areas.
  • The Abrahamson prospect is near the junction of North (Ferguson) Creek and South Lardeau Creek, near the community of Ferguson. The Abrahamson Group originally included the North Star, Crystal and Queen of the Hills tenures. The tenures were worked in the early 1890s; however, their precise location is uncertain.
    • The New Zone Copper occurrence is described as being at 1250 metres elevation, west of the Nettie L. [082KNW100], on the south fork of Lardeau Creek. Its precise location is unknown. However, there is an old tunnel collared on the (now reverted) Good Hope crown granted mineral claim that may mark the site. It is to the west of the mine access road, immediately below the Nettie L. campsite, on the Good Luck (L.4956) claim. New Zone Copper Limited owned the New Zone Copper showing in 1961.
    • The Trout Lake area is underlain by a thick succession of sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Badshot Formation and Lardeau Group near the northern end of the Kootenay arc, an arcuate, north to northwest trending belt of Paleozoic and Mesozoic strata that is now classified as a distinct, pericratonic, terrane. The arc rocks are bordered by Precambrian quartzite in the east and they young to the west, where they are bounded by Jurassic-age intrusive complexes. They were deformed during the Antler orogeny in Devonian-Mississippian time and were refolded and faulted during the Columbian orogeny, in the Middle Jurassic. A large panel, the "Selkirk allochthon", was later offset to the northeast by dip-slip motion along the Columbia River Fault.
    • New Zone Copper Limited owned the showing in 1961. It consists of a zone of schistose siliceous rocks that strikes at 140 degrees and dips steeply to the southwest and is sparsely mineralized with pyrite and some chalcopyrite. Two grab samples from surface assayed 0.29 and 0.16 per cent copper, and 0.12 and 0.13 per cent nickel. A drift was started below the showing.

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