The Ram Creek No.1 copper occurrence is located on the southwest side of a tributary of Toad River, 7.5 kilometres south of Yedhe Creek and 8.25 kilometres east of Toad River, in the Muskwa Ranges in the Northern Rocky Mountains (Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1971, page 80; National Mineral Inventory).

The occurrence is in a region known as the Muskwa Anticlinorium, a major north-northwest–trending structure characterized by moderate folding and thrust faulting. The structure consists of Middle Proterozoic (Helikian) rocks of the Muskwa Assemblage, as well as Paleozoic rocks (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1343A; Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, Volume G-2, pages 111, 639). All belong to Ancestral North America (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1713A). Northeast- to northwest-trending Proterozoic diabase dikes are common in the region.

There is little available documentation on the occurrence (Property File - Adamson, R.S., 1971). It was apparently explored in the early 1970s in conjunction with the Bob 3-4 and Ann 18 prospects, 2 kilometres to the east-northeast, described in Assessment Report 3420. At those localities, chalcopyrite mineralization occurs in quartz-carbonate veins adjacent to a diabase dike in a 1.1-kilometre-long shear zone.

The Ram Creek No.1 is in a similar setting but is probably not a continuation of the mineralization referred to above. North-northeast– and north-northwest–striking diabase dikes intrude interbedded slate and dolostone of the Aida Formation of the Muskwa Assemblage (Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1971; Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 373). Bedding strikes northwest and dips moderately southwest. Quartz veins, which trend north to northwest, occur adjacent to the dikes. One vein can be traced for 180 metres; it appears to pinch out at both ends. In general, the veins are discontinuous and erratically mineralized, and have been disrupted by faulting. Mineralization is in the form of disseminated chalcopyrite. Chip samples from three localities averaged approximately 1.5 per cent copper over an average width of 1.2 metres (Property File - Adamson, R.S., 1971; National Mineral)

In 2021, chip sampling of two quartz-carbonate veins, located on a north-facing slope of a ridge approximately 600 metres south of the plotted location of the Ram Creek No.1 occurrence, yielded up to 0.736 per cent copper over 0.4 metre (Sample D723007; Assessment Report 39913).

Work History

In 1971, Alberta Copper and Resources Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping, sampling and trenching on the area as the Ram Creek property.

In 1979 and 1980, Halferdahl & Associates Ltd. completed a regional program of soil sampling on the area as the Tuchodi property.

Renewed interest in the property was shown in 1992 (George Cross News Letter, Number 87, May 5).

In 2005, Twenty-Seven Capital Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and a 9002.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Muskwa property.

In 2006, Bradford Mineral Explorations Ltd. conducted 4467.0 line-kilometres airborne magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area as the Trident property.

In 2012, a remote sensing and geophysical data interpretation program was completed on the area as part of the regionally extensive Northern IOCG property.

During 2017 through 2019, Fabled Copper Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping, rock sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Churchkey property. Also in 2019, six diamond drill holes, totalling 972.5 metres, were completed on the area as the Neil-Church Key property.

In 2021, Fable Copper Corp. completed a program prospecting, rock sampling and UAV photogrammetry surveys on the Church-Key-Neil property.