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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Feb-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name SAGE 6 Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G019
Status Showing NTS Map 082G01W
Latitude 049º 07' 14'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 114º 22' 03'' Northing 5444180
Easting 692075
Commodities Copper Deposit Types E04 : Sediment-hosted Cu
H08 : Alkalic intrusion-associated Au
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Sage 6 occurrence is located about 67 kilometres southeast of Fernie and about 2 kilometres south of Sage Creek.

At the Sage 6 showing, two parallel east-west trending andestic sills with copper mineralization occur (Map 2, Assessment Report 2749). In general, chalcopyrite and bornite occur disseminated within Helikian Creston Formation (Purcell Supergroup) quartzites within localized zones of enrichment. Sulphides are also concentrated sporadically at the margins of diorite sills of the Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions. Malachite is common on the weathered surfaces of the sedimentary stratigraphy. Chalcopyrite and bornite are also common along veinlets within the quartzites and associated with specularite in fractures in the diorite.

WORK HISTORY

In 1969, Akamina Minerals Ltd. conducted a regional mapping, and geochemical program on the Grinnell Formation, a section of which underlies the claims held by Mark V and Thor. Widespread occurrences of copper mineralization were located in the Grinnell and neighbouring formations. Some of these were trenched. Most of the resulting assays appear to have been in the 0.2 to 0.9 per cent copper range, with occasional grab samples assaying up to 5 per cent copper (Property File Document 810672). The mineralization is reported to have occurred as disseminations and fine fracture fillings in quartzite beds, in shales, and to some degree in dykes and quartz vein material.

In 1970, Strato Geological Ltd., on behalf of Mark V Mines Ltd and Thor Explorations Ltd. carried out a reconnaissance silt and soil geochemical sampling and prospecting survey on their ABC, DEF, GHI, and JKL claims (Assessment Report 2746). A total of 31 rock, 28 stream silt and 60 soil samples were collected for analysis high copper values in silts were found in the areas of claim ABC 17 and DEF 35, the latter are correlated with, and explained by a copper occurrence found during the 1971 program on Grid #2.

In 1971, soil geochemistry and geological mapping was completed and approximately 240 samples were collected on behalf of Mark V Mines Ltd and Thor Explorations Ltd. Several anomalous zones were indicated on the ABC, DEF, GHI, and JKL claims (Figure 3, Assessment Report 3336).

In 1972, Mark V Mines Ltd. extended the geochemical work was extended on the company's Sage Creek property. The claims involved were the ABC 1 to 4, and ABC 11 to 34. The soil sampling results revealed four soil new anomalies, in addition to an extension of the 1971 Grid #3 soil anomaly (Assessment Report 3931).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2746, 2749, 3160, *3336, 3931
EMPR GEM 1970-477
GSC MEM 336
GSC Open File 7476
GSC P 61-24
EMPR PFD *810672 822848
*Internal Report to the Board of Management, Akamina Minerals Limited on the Copper Project – Clarke Range, March 20, 1969 (Figure 5, Property File Document (PFD 810672))

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