The SUNGOD showing is located along a north-facing cirque of Mount Barbour, 500 metres northeast of the summit, and 2 kilometres south of Tenquille Creek, approximately 22 kilometres north-northwest of Pemberton, B.C.
The region is underlain by a large northwest trending, northeast dipping, right-side-up, roof pendant consisting of volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Cadwallader Group. The pendant is contained within intrusive rock, ranging from granite to granodiorite to quartz diorite, of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. The Cadwallader Group is unconformably overlain by a relatively thin section of volcano-sedimentary rocks thought to be of Jurassic or Cretaceous age. The Spetch Creek pluton intrudes these two stratigraphic packages. Isolated exposures of Tertiary basalts overlie the above rock units.
At the Sungod showing, the Cadwallader Group has been subdivided into five units which from oldest to youngest are: 1) massive andesite, 2) mixed pyroclastic, 3) felsic volcanic, 4) mixed pyroclastic and 5) sedimentary. The massive andesite units consist of dark green massive basaltic andesite flows. The mixed pyroclastic unit consists of pale to dark green andesitic to dacitic fine tuffs, lithic tuffs, feldspar crystal tuffs and lapilli tuff with minor interbedded porphyritic flows. The felsic volcanic unit consists of light grey to pale green rhyolite and rhyodacite flows, commonly feldspar porphyritic. The mixed pyroclastic and sedimentary unit consists of well bedded andesite to dacite, lithic and lapilli tuffs with abundant limestone, limestone breccias, calcareous feldspar-rich wackes, black shale, siltstone and chert interbeds. The upper sedimentary unit consists of an upward fining sequence of cobble conglomerate, feldspar-rich greywackes and sandstones, black shale and chert. The showing is hosted by limestone in an assemblage of andesite and dacite flows, breccia and tuff and sedimentary rocks.
The Sungod showing consists of narrow (30 centimetre wide) lenses of pyrrhotite, with occasional trace chalcopyrite and sphalerite hosted in mudstones and cherty beds. Associated rocks are well bedded lithic tuffs and feldspar-rich wackes of the Cadwallader Group. Local patchy oxidized pyrrhotite clots occur throughout the host rocks. The mineralization appears to be due to hornfelsing of more calcareous beds.
The best results from three samples taken from the Sungod showing were from Sample 14218, which yielded 0.38 per cent copper, 0.58 per cent zinc and 9.0 grams per tonne silver across 35 centimetres (Assessment Report 21274).
Work History
The area has been explored since the 1920s. In 1952, National Consolidated Base Metals Company examined the area. In 1961, Phelps Dodge completed a program of geological mapping on the area as the Tenquille claims. In 1969, the area was examined as the D group. Some drilling and blasting were performed at this time. In 1982 and 1983, Tenquille Resources completed programs of ground geophysical surveys, prospecting, trenching and sampling on the area as HIAG claims. In 1987, Ajax Resources completed a program of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area. In 1989 and 1990, New Camp Resources completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Zul property. In 1990, Teck Corp. staked the Apollo, Sun and God claims of the Sungod property. In 2003, the area was staked as the Gold King property by J.T. Shearer, who conducted geological mapping and prospecting over the Sungold, Number 4 and Li-Li-Kel areas in 2005.
