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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Oct-1998 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name SUN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G069
Status Showing NTS Map 104G09E
Latitude 057º 40' 36'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 14' 04'' Northing 6393384
Easting 426379
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Sun occurrence is located on the southwest portion of the Klastline Plateau. The area has recently been mapped on a regional scale as Upper Triassic Stuhini Group sediments intruded by dikes, sills, plugs and plutons of Early Jurassic age (Open File 1997-3). The Sun claims were owned and investigated by Great Plains Development Company Ltd. in 1976. An unknown amount of rock sampling and geological work was reported done on the claim covering the showing. No further work is reported on this showing to date (October, 1998).

One small occurrence of copper mineralization was found which consists of a pod of malachite up to 60 centimetres in diameter with a length up to 6.1 metres, and soft blue-black veinlets of chalcocite that occur in a band of tuff. Mineralization is thought to have resulted from fluids migrating along planes of weakness parallel to bedding. Two grab samples were taken, the first containing 12.13 per cent copper and 20.57 grams per tonne silver, and the second containing 15.65 per cent copper and 35.66 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 6303).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *6303
EMPR EXPL *1977-E226
EMPR FIELDWORK 1976, pp. 71-73; 1994, pp. 343-358; 1995, pp. 155- 174; 1996, 283-290,291-297
EMPR OF 1992-1; 1992-3; 1996-4; 1997-3
GSC P 71-44
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 1418A

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