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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KITCHENER-SULLIVAN Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F019
Status Showing NTS Map 082F01W
Latitude 049º 08' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 22' 44'' Northing 5443390
Easting 545301
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Kitchener-Sullivan showing is located 4 kilometres from Kitchener on the south side of the Goat River, about 0.8 kilometre upslope and 180 metres in elevation above the railway, on a steep north-facing slope. The strike of the quartz-filled vein, which varies between 1 and 1.2 metres thick, is east-west parallel to the contour of the slope; dip is vertical.

The vein is hosted by hornblende diorite of the Moyie intrusions of Middle Proterozoic age (Purcell Supergroup). Here, it intrudes sedimentary rocks of the Aldridge Formation (also Purcell Supergroup) which in this area comprise quartzitic wackes and argillaceous siltstones (Brown and Stinson, Fieldwork 1994, page 114).

Mineralization consists of bunches of chalcopyrite and pyrite in the quartz, with assays up to 6 per cent copper and 35 grams per tonne silver over 0.95 metre (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1919, page 138). The vein was traced over a strike length of 33 metres as exposed in a short shaft and several opencuts.

During 2004 through 2012, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (soil and rock) sampling and airborne geophysical surveys on the area as apart of the Iron Range property. A completed property exploration history can be found at the O-Ray (MINFILE 082FSE017) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1902-301; *1919-138; 1934-E27; 1936-G48
EMPR FIELDWORK 1993, pp. 129-151; 1994, pp. 111-125
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721
Therriault, R. (2012-03-15): NI-43-101 Compliant Technical Report on the Iron Range Precious and Base Metal Property
EMPR PFD 904619, 904683

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