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File Created: 21-Feb-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  31-Jul-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name SUNKIST BROOK Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G019
Status Showing NTS Map 082G01W
Latitude 049º 08' 56'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 21' 46'' Northing 5447360
Easting 692300
Commodities Copper Deposit Types E04 : Sediment-hosted Cu
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Sunkist Brook occurrence is located about 65 kilometres southeast of Fernie, about 1.2 kilometres north of Sage Creek.

The regional geology in vicinity of the occurrence indicates that the Sunkist Brook area is underlain by dolomitic carbonate rocks of the Helikian Kitchener Formation, Purcell Supergroup. Copper, as chalcopyrite, or chalcocite and bornite, is present in widespread small occurrences throughout the region often associated with quartzitic phases of the sediments, and in many cases with the dikes and sills. Mineralization occurs as disseminations and fine fracture fillings in quartzite beds, in shales, and to some degree in dioritic dikes and quartz vein material. Argillites appear to favour the chalcocite-bornite association. Much of the host stratigraphy was historically reported as being Grinnell Formation.

Refer to the Sunkist Brook South (082GSE095) occurrence for work history.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2746, 2749, 3160, *3336
EMPR GEM 1970-477
GSC MEM 336
GSC Open File 7476
GSC P 61-24
EMPR PFD *810672 822848
*Internal Report to the Board of Management, Akamina Minerals Limited on the Copper Project – Clarke Range, March 20, 1969 (Figure 5, Property File Document (PFD 810672))

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