The Lunar Creek 35-37 occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 2020 metres on a northeast-trending ridge, approximately 1.5 kilometres northeast of Lunar Creek and 15 kilometres south of the eastern end Frog Lakes.
Regionally, the area lies on the western edge of the Omineca Belt near the Kutcho fault, marking the boundary with rocks of the Intermontane Belt. The area is underlain by Early Jurassic granodioritic intrusive rocks of the Pitman Batholith with minor roof pendants of metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks. Early regional mapping correlated these rocks with the Devonian to Permian Asitka Group based on lithological similarities (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 483). Fossil evidence from later regional mapping dates least part of the sequence as Mississippian (Geological Survey of Canada Paper 80-1B, pages 207-211). A tentative age of Devonian to Permian is given to these metamorphic rocks. To the west lie ultramafic rocks of the Middle Triassic Lunar Creek Complex.
Locally, a biotite monzonite and/or gneiss hosts pods of bornite with minor to trace pyrite and chalcopyrite. Malachite and an unknown black sulphide are also reported. To the northeast a malachite-stained quartz vein has been identified.
In 2012, a sample (129666) of mineralized intrusive assayed 0.765 per cent copper, 4.3 grams per tonne silver and 0.231 gram per tonne gold, whereas other samples taken a short distance to the north-northwest yielded up to 0.054 per cent rubidium (Assessment Report 33484). Also at this time, a sample (129165) of the malachite-stained quartz vein to the northeast yielded 0.159 per cent copper, 0.205 per cent lead and 24.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 33484).
Work History
During 1971 through 1976, El Paso Mining and Milling Co. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area as the West claims.
In 2012, Stratton Resources Inc. completed a program of prospecting and rock and silt sampling on the area as the Lunar 1-37 claims. The following year, a 1002.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic and radiometric survey was completed on the area. In 2014, a program of reprocessing and modeling of previous airborne magnetic and radiometric data was completed.