Tea Property
The Tea property is located approximately 20 km along strike of Newmont Corporation’s Coffee Deposit and exhibits similar geological characteristics. Coffee is a Cretaceous, structurally-controlled, partially-oxidized deposit, with approximately 61.1 Mt at an average grade of 1.2 g/t Au for a total of 2.4 Moz Au. The Tea property hosts open-ended soil geochemical anomalies that parallel geochemical trends at Coffee.
West-Central Yukon, 20-km along strike of the Coffee Deposit
480 Hectares, 24 Quartz Claims
Helicopter Accessible
"Coffee-style" Gold Target
Key Facts
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Large open-ended arsenic-gold-antimony soil & rock anomalies identified during recent exploration on the property
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Geochemical anomalies define broad trends similar to those observed at Coffee
Project Summary
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The 5 sq. km, 100%-owned Tea property is located 115 km south of Dawson City & 20 km along strike of Newmont's Coffee deposit
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The project is accessible via helicopter and lies within the Traditional Territory of the Tr'ondëk Hwëch'in
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The claims were staked in 2022 based on extensive research and a similar geologic environment to the nearby Coffee property
Modern Exploration
Regional Geology
Newmont's Coffee deposit is hosted in Paleozoic metamorphic rocks of the Yukon Tanana Terrane and mid-Cretaceous plutonic rocks of the Coffee Creek pluton (Ryan et al., 2013a; Ryan et al., 2013b). Gold ores at Coffee are hosted in second- and third-order faults and fractures that are genetically related to the Coffee Creek fault (Sánchez et al., 2013). Hypogene ore is characterized by auriferous pyrite, arsenian pyrite, and arsenopyrite where gold occurs in solid solution, and as micron-size particles within the sulphide lattice. Ore is oxidized to a depth of ~300 m, and occurs as very fine particulate gold along rims and fractures of oxidized sulphides. The hypogene alteration assemblage is typically very fine-grained, intricately intergrown white mica, illite, kaolinite, dolomite and quartz.
Property Geology
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The geology on Tea claims consists primarily of a variety of Snowcap assemblage rocks of the Yukon Tanana Terrane, interleaved with K-augen bearing orthogneiss of the Permian Sulphur Creek Suite
Historical Exploration
Historical work on the Tea property has been quite limited, which is surprising given the favourable geology and proximity to the nearby Coffee deposit.
Work to date on the Tea property has consisted of staking, geochemical sampling, and geological mapping resulting in:
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Identification of similar rocks on the Tea property to that of the nearby Coffee deposit
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Numerous geochemical anomalies are present on the property. These orientations are a similar structural setting to those observed at Coffee
Mineralized Zones
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The Tea property contains three coherent arsenic-antimony-gold soil geochemical anomalies that broadly parallel trends observed at Coffee, the largest being 1,200-by-700m in size and open along strike
Future Work
Future work on the property include a drone magnetic survey, geological mapping, and additional geochemical sampling. Results of this work would lead to mechanized trenching leading into drill testing the most compelling targets.
