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File Created: 10-May-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BC SUGAR WEST, WEATHER STATION, GMONGOUS Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L047
Status Showing NTS Map 082L07E
Latitude 050º 29' 23'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 40' 30'' Northing 5594423
Easting 381185
Commodities Graphite Deposit Types P04 : Crystalline flake graphite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The BC Sugar West (Weather Station) graphite occurrence is located a west facing slope north of Latewhos Creek, approximately 3 kilometres east of Mabel Lake.

The area is underlain by metamorphic rocks of the Proterozoic to Paleozoic Kootenay (Shuswap) Assemblage. High-grade metamorphic rocks consisting primarily of gneiss with minor quartzite are intruded by a fine to medium-grained diorite.

Locally, an oxidized biotite-quartz-feldspar gneiss and calc-silicate gneiss host graphite with crystals up to 4 millimetres in size. Minor pyrite and pyrrhotite are also reported in the gneiss.

In 2013, a continuous chip sample assayed 3.16 per cent carbon over 5.2 metres, while 13 rock samples yielded from 1.44 to 4.38 per cent carbon (Assessment Report 35056). Another zone, located across the creek valley to the southeast near the Taylor Creek road, assayed up to 2.71 per cent carbon (Assessment Report 35056). The following year, rock samples yielded up to 4.2 per cent carbon (Assessment Report 35185). In 2015, sampling of a trench yielded 1.997 per cent carbon over 69 metres, including 2.73 per cent carbon over 30 metres (Assessment Report 36230).

During 2013 through 2015, Lithium Corporation completed programs of prospecting, rock sampling, minor trenching and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the BC Sugar property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *35056, *35185, 35661, *36230
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 49-54; 1992, pp. 255-257
EMPR OF 1990-30
EMPR RGS 082L, 1976; 32, 1991
GSC MAP 1059A; 7216G; 8502G
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637
EMPR PFD 681568

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