The Burnt Ridge occurrence is located approximately 11 kilometres east of Elkford, British Columbia, and approximately 8 kilometres north-northwest of the Line Creek Mine (MINFILE 082GNE020).
In the Burnt Ridge occurrence area, up to 8 major seams ranging from approximately 3.4 to 12.2 metres thick occur in the Jurassic-Cretaceous Mist Mountain Formation (Kootenay Group) interbedded with sandstone, siltstone and shale. The seams from oldest to youngest are #1 (7.9 to 9.8 metres), #2 (approximately 6.4 metres), #3 (approximately 4.9 to 8.5 metres, however an upper and lower bench, separated by several metres of thin coal partings and sediments, are present in places), #4 (main bench is 3.7 to 6.1 metres thick with an upper bench approximately 1.2 metres thick occurring in some holes), #5 (4.0 to 5.8 metres is dirty and contains a thin parting in section 1, Burnt Hill), #6 (split into an upper and lower seam in sections 1 and 3, the total thickness varies from 4.9 to 6.7 metres) and #7 (11.6 to 12.2 metres).
The ridge lies on the west limb of the roughly north-northwest trending Fording River syncline. The strata strikes north-northwest and dips towards the east. A number of minor folds lying parallel to the main synclinal trend occur towards the axis of the syncline. The strata are cut by numerous faults, trending from north-northeast to east.
In 2003, a road north from the existing Line Creek mine to access the Burnt Ridge area was built by Elk Valley Coal Corporation and a 2000-metre drilling campaign initiated on this target.
In 2004, the Elk Valley Coal Corporation undertook a large drilling program (8843 metres) on Burnt Ridge, northeast of Sparwood and on-strike to the north with coal seams at Line Creek mine. Resources identified at this location would become part of Line Creek Operations (082GNE020).
Expansion of the Line Creek mine, called Line Creek Phase II, will extend northward to encompass the Mount Michael (MINFILE 082GNE022) and Burnt Ridge North areas. Line Creek Phase II was granted conditional environmental assessment approval in October 2013.
Refer to Line Creek (MINFILE 082GNE020) for additional and ongoing information, including inventory and production values.
