The Pook occurrence is located in the headwaters of the informally name Pook Creek, between the Akie and Paul rivers and approximately 37 kilometres south-southeast of Chesterfield Lake.

Stratiform pyrite-galena-sphalerite mineralization is hosted within northwest-trending, southwest-dipping, Upper Devonian Gunsteel Formation shales of the Devonian and Mississippian Earn Group. The shale unit is terminated to the southwest by steep imbricate thrust sheets of Silurian Nonda Formation siltstone and Cambrian to Ordovician Kechika Group limestone. The showing consists of gossanous, baritic, lead-zinc rich black shales of the Upper Devonian Gunsteel Formation, Earn Group, located near the base of a high cliff at the head of Pook Creek.

In 1982 Cyprus Anvil Mining Corp drilled their last diamond drill hole testing down-dip stratigraphy of the Pook showing which intersected 20 metres of laminated pyrite with minor sphalerite and galena. The Pook showing was described in 1995 by Teck Exploration Ltd as consisting of massive to laminated barite with disseminated to finely laminar galena interbedded with baritic plus/minus pyritic, silty black shale.

In 1995, a chip sample over 1.55 metres graded 5.2 per cent lead and zinc and 37.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 24080).

In 2016, re-logging and XRF analysis of historic drill core yielded up to 9.9 per cent zinc over 0.6 metre and 7.08 per cent zinc over 0.7 metre, both in hole EG82F01 (Assessment Report 35958).

In 2017, two rock samples (2683818 and 2683819) yielded 0.29 and 0.44 per cent zinc, respectively (Assessment Report 36602).

Work History

See Fluke (MINFILE 094F 009) for details of the Fluke property of which the Pook occurrence was part of.