The Sky 1 East occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1500 metres on an east-facing slope, approximately 3 kilometres east of the south end of Blue Sheep Lake.

The area is underlain by south-dipping carbonate of the Lower Cambrian Atan Group, which are overlain by phyllites of the Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group. The strata are intruded by a small Cretaceous(?) quartz-feldspar porphyry stock and associate dikes and sills. Intrusion of the stock has produced a doming of the sediments and an extensive zone of hornfels within the phyllites. Low sulphide garnet-diopside skarn and overlying cherty, light green to brown hornfels are exposed at the dolomite-phyllite contact immediately west of the stock.

Locally, limestone and/or dolomite associated with an altered quartz-felspar porphyry dike host pyrite and sphalerite mineralization.

In 1981, a rock chip sample (81HT3) assayed greater than 1.00 per cent zinc and 3.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 9661).

Another zone of mineralization is reported approximately 400 metres south of the previous zone and comprises pods of pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in a phyllitic hornfels.

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Johnny (MINFILE 104I 040) occurrence and a complete exploration history can be found there.