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File Created: 14-Dec-1999 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  08-Apr-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SINCLAIR, PAKK, ROAR, PAKK 16, MAC Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F059
Status Showing NTS Map 082F09E, 082F09W
Latitude 049º 33' 47'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 15' 34'' Northing 5490314
Easting 553553
Commodities Zinc, Lead Deposit Types E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Sinclair occurrence is in the southern headwaters of Sinclair Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1850 metres.

The area is underlain by quartzite, wacke, argillite and siltstone of the mid-Proterozoic (middle) Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup), intruded by meta-gabbro or meta-diorite of the Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions.

Locally, thin bedded lead-zinc mineralization occurs in a 60-metre thick mudstone unit that has been traced on surface for 600 metres. Diamond drilling intersected stratiform sphalerite mineralization 90 metres down-dip from the surface showing. Mineralization consisted of 40 thin, bedding-parallel bands of disseminated sphalerite and pyrrhotite ranging in thickness from 1 to 10 centimetres. The sulphide-rich bands are scattered throughout a 150-metre section of thin-bedded argillite and silty argillite of the mid-Proterozoic (Helikian) Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup).

In 2014, drill core samples from previous drilling, assayed up to 0.114 per cent zinc (Sample 1621560; Assessment Report 34880).

In 1987, Esso Resources completed a program of rock and silt sampling, geological mapping and a 3.0 line-kilometre electromagnetic survey on the area immediately east as the Mac 1-10 claims. In 1993 and 1994, Cominco completed 36.6 line-kilometres of electromagnetic surveying on the area as the Roar claims.

In 1999, Chapleau Resources Ltd. completed two short diamond drill holes (P99-4, 5), totalling 371.6 metres, on the occurrence. In 2001, a single, 291.7-metre, diamond drill hole (PAKK00-15) was completed. In 2014, D. Anderson completed a program of logging and sampling of two cores drilled in 1999 and 2000. In 2015, the area was prospected and sampled by T. Kennedy.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 16971, 23142, 23622, 26191, 26693, *34880, 35828, 36388
EMPR OF 2000-22
EMPR PF (Chapleau Resources (1999-10-06): No. 192 (1999) - Lower Jack, Pakk, Sinclair, Horn, Smoker; Chapleau Resources (1999-10-25): No. 204 (1999) - Pakk, Horn, Sinclair, Polly Vent; T. Schroeter (2000-09-05): Field Notes - Pakk; T.G. Shroeter (2000-09-25): Photo - Looking E over Pakk pegmatite; T. Schroeter (2001-03-02): Re: MAG prospect; P. Wilton (2001-01-12): Re: Activity report - January 12/01; P. Wilton (2001-02-02): Re: Activity report - February 02/01; D.A. Terry (2001-09-17): Exploration Activity Overview - Sullivan Camp; Trygve Hoy (2004-05-25): 2004 project plans: east Kootenays; D. Grieve (2004-08-22): Photo - No. 56 drill - Pakk; Joseph Montgomery (2004-09-21): Klondike options Purcell Basin properties to Golden Chalice; R. Berdusco (2005-11-21): Re: Weekly report, Nov. 13-19)
GSC MAP 15-1957
GCNL *#192(Oct.6),*#204(Oct.25), 1999

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