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Occurrence Details


Occurrence Number
115J 065
Occurrence Name
Tijana
Occurrence Type
Hard-rock
Status
Unknown


General Information

Aliases: Coffee
Deposit Type(s): Unknown
Location(s): 62.7875 N, -138.938890 W
NTS Mapsheet(s): 115J15
Location Comments: .5 Kilometres
Hand Samples Available at YGS: No

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Work History

 Staked as Moss cl 1-24 (Y38561) in Oct/69 by Steve Radvak and sold to Marguerite Lake Mines Ltd (formerly Tijana Mines Ltd). Optioned in Jun/70 to Nippon Mining of Canada Ltd, which conducted reconnaissance rock, silt and soil sampling and geological mapping in Aug/70.

Restaked within Coffee cl 1430-1714 (YD42501) in Feb/2010 by Kaminak Gold Corp. The claims are part of Kaminak Gold’s Coffee property which consists of 3 000+ claims and were staked to cover any potential mineralizing system that might be hosted within the property. In 2011 the company plans to prospect and reconnaissance soil sample this portion of the property.

GEOLOGY

The area was reconnaissance mapped by D. Templeman-Kluit in 1974. Since that time various geologists have mapped near this area but no one has directly mapped the occurrence area in detail. Gordey and Makepeace (2003) released a geological compilation that covered this area. M. Colpron of the Yukon Geological Survey released a Tectonic Assemblage map which included this portion of the Yukon-Tanana Terrane in 2006. Colpron's stratigraphic units and age dates differ slightly from those used by Gordey and Makepeace because he is trying to work out terrane wide relationships.
 

The Coffee property is underlain by a sequence of shallowly to moderately south to southwest-dipping Paleozoic metamorphic rocks that are assigned to The Yukon-Tanana terrane and are intruded by the Cretaceous Coffee Creek granite along a west to northwest-trending contact. Both the metamorphic and intrusive rocks are cut by intermediate to felsic dykes of unknown age.

Kaminak Gold has not yet mapped the area around this occurrence. Reconnaissance mapping carried out by Nippon Mining indicates the occurrence is underlain by Cretaceous granodiorite that is intruded by a northerly-trending band of fine to medium-grained quartz diorite ((?) likely dacite) containing occasional specks of pyrite. West of Excelsior Creek the granodiorite intrudes Paleozoic metasediments. No anomalies or mineralization were identified on the Moss claims.

Kaminak Gold has not yet released any results pertaining to the occurrence area.


REFERENCES

KAMINAK GOLD CORPORATION, Mar/2011. Technical Report Coffee Gold project, Yukon Territory, Canada. Report prepared by SRK Consulting (Canada) Inc. Project Number 3CK008.00 by J-F Couture and J.P. Siddorn.

KAMINAK GOLD CORPORATION, Sep/2011. Web Site: www.kaminak.com

NIPPON MINING OF CANADA LTD, 1970. Assessment Report #060242 by D.M. Scott.

TEMPLEMAN-Kluit, D.J., 1974. Reconnaissance geology of Aishihik Lake, Snag and part of Stewart River map-areas, west-central Yukon; Geological Survey of Canada, Paper 73-41, 97 p. (including preliminary maps 16-1973 (115JK), 17-1973 (115H) and 18-1973 (115N)).

 

 

Location Map

Last Updated: Oct 26, 2011

Work History

Year Work Type Comment
2011 Geochemistry: Soil Reconnaissance sampling.
2011 Other Prospecting.
1970 Geology: Bedrock Mapping Reconnaissance scale.
1970 Other Reconnaissance scale.

Regional Geology - Terrane

Group: Intermontane
Affinity: W Laurentia
Name: Yukon-Tanana
Realm: peri-Laurentian


Regional Geology - Bedrock

Supergroup:
Group/Suite: Whitehorse
Formation:
Member:
Terrane:
Period Max: Cretaceous
Age Max: 105 MA
Period Min: Cretaceous
Age Min: 90 MA
Rock Major: monzogranite
Rock Minor:
Reference: Ryan et al. (2013) - GSC CGM 116
Geological Unit (1M): mKW
Geological Unit (250K): mKqW

Assessment Reports that overlap occurrence

Report Number Year Title Worktypes Holes Drilled Meters Drilled
096326 2012 Diamond Drilling, Reverse Circulation Drilling, Soil Sampling, and Prospecting Performed on the Kaminak Gold Corporations 100% Owned Coffee Property Diamond - Drilling, Diamond - Drilling, Reverse Circulation - Drilling, Reverse Circulation - Drilling, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Drill Cuttings - Geochemistry, Drill Cuttings - Geochemistry, Rock - Geochemistry, Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Detailed Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Detailed Bedrock Mapping - Geology, Column Leach Test - Lab Work/Physical Studies, Column Leach Test - Lab Work/Physical Studies, Prospecting - Other, Prospecting - Other 696 138207.18
095505 2011 Assessment Report Describing Geochemical, Geophysical and Survey Work on the Coffee Claims Gamma-Ray Spectrometry - Airborne Geophysics, Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics, Orthophoto - Airphotography, Diamond - Drilling, Reverse Circulation - Drilling, Rock - Geochemistry, Silt - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Hydraulic - Trenching 247 48001
095302 2010 Coffee Property-2010 Assessment Report Diamond - Drilling, Drill Core - Geochemistry, Rock - Geochemistry, Soil - Geochemistry, Magnetics - Ground Geophysics, Petrographic - Lab Work/Physical Studies, Backhoe - Trenching 76 16104
095057 2008 Summary Report of the 2008 Aster Image Program on the Canadian Creek Property Infrared - Remote Sensing
061127 1970 Geophysical Report on Aeromagnetic Survey Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics
019767 1970 Geophysical Report on Airborne Magnetic and Airborne Radiometric Surveys Gamma-Ray Spectrometry - Airborne Geophysics, Magnetic - Airborne Geophysics

Related References

Number Title Page(s) Document Type
2006-1 Tectonic assemblage map of Yukon-Tanana and related terranes in Yukon and northern British Columbia (1:1 000 000 scale) Open File (Geological - Bedrock)
2003-9(D) Yukon Digital Geology (version 2) Open File (Geological - Bedrock)
YEG2010_15 Geology of new gold discoveries in the Coffee Creek area, White Gold District, west-central Yukon. Annual Report Paper
ARMC016563 Geochemical map - 115J/15 - Britannia Creek Geochemical Map
ARMC016562 Geology map - 115J/15 - Britannia Creek Geoscience Map (Geological - Bedrock)
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