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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P1 Cu1
Name SUNSET Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103P009
Status Showing NTS Map 103P01W
Latitude 055º 03' 17'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 19' 06'' Northing 6101093
Easting 543545
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

The Sunset showing is located on the west bank of Wilson Creek approximately 4.8 kilometres west of Woodcock. In 1929, the Sunset claim was owned by A.S. Gray.

The area is underlain by sediments of the Middle Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group, which are intruded by Tertiary (and possibly younger) granitic Coast Plutonic Complex rocks.

The showings appear to be shear zones in argillites and sandstones and are somewhat sparsely mineralized with chalcopyrite and pyrite. An opencut has exposed a quartz-calcite vein striking 320 degrees and dipping 80 degrees southwest containing pyrite. About 30 metres to the southeast and 9 metres lower down, a tunnel was run a distance of about 3 metres on a flat stringer 15 centimetres wide, striking 080 degrees and dipping at about 20 degrees to the north. The same stringer shows on the surface about 12 metres west of the tunnel portal and contains some irregular patches of chalcopyrite.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1929-C154
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR BULL 63; 64
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC OF 864

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