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File Created: 11-Sep-1997 by Derek A. Brown (DAB)
Last Edit:  12-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name BRANCHEYE Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G091
Status Showing NTS Map 082G13W
Latitude 049º 55' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 51' 57'' Northing 5530908
Easting 581408
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Brancheye is located west of the settlement of Skookumchuck, which is situated 53 kilometres north of Cranbrook and 39 kilometres north of Kimberley on Highway 93/95.

From a point 1 kilometre south of Skookumchuck on Highway 93/95, follow Farstad Way west for 2.7 kilometres (Farstad Way is the road to the Skookumchuck pulp mill and there is a sign indicating this at the junction of Farstad Way and Highway 93/95). Before arriving at the pulp mill turn west on Torrent Road. Follow Torrent Road 2.7 kilometres to its junction with the Skookumchuck Mountain Road (before arriving at the Skookumchuck Mountain Road the Torrent Road crosses the railroad siding leading to the pulp mill, the Skookumchuck River and the main railroad tracks). From the junction of the Skookumchuch Mountain Road and the Torrent Road, branch west on the Skookumchuck Mountain Road and follow this road to the 5-kilometre sign. From this point follow a logging road to the west that is signed as Branch A. Branch A is followed approximately 2.5 kilometres to where the road ends at a landing. From the landing proceed at a compass bearing of 300 degrees for a distance of 300 metres to where the location line for the Brancheye claims intersects the recent logging. The location line for the claim has been chain-sawed out to make a base line for the first several hundred metres after which the location line can be easily followed due west through the open, mature forest to the showing. The showing is on a talus slope that extends from the Skookumchuck River east for approximately 200 metres. The elevation at the landing at the end of the road is 1439 metres, while the elevation at the showing is 1040 metres. Walking time to the showing is approximately 1 hour.

Chalcopyrite occurs in phyllite and siltstone of the Helikian Kitchener Formation. A grab sample assayed 1.0 per cent copper (Derek Brown, 1997).

Bibliography
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1996-17 by Frank O'Grady)
O'Grady, F. (1997): Summary of Prospecting Skookumchuck River
area, Brancheye Cu Showing, unpub. report.

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