The SA occurrence is located south of Meadow Creek and approximately 3.2 kilometres east- northeast of the creeks’ junction with Guichon Creek.
The area lies within the Upper Triassic Nicola Group approximately 3 kilometres east of the Lower Jurassic Guichon Creek batholith. Locally Miocene to Eocene volcanic flows and minor intrusives overlie the Triassic rocks. The area is underlain by a conformable succession of epiclastic rocks with subordinate interlayered lavas. The sedimentary sequence is best exposed at the main showing where the succession is about 90 metres thick. This unit is comprised of 50 to 100 metres of volcanic conglomerate composed of subangular to rounded red to green clasts of flow rocks cemented by a friable sandy matrix. Weakly bedded, coarse-grained fossiliferous limestone overlies the conglomerate and is again overlain by at least 60 metres of conglomerate grading upward into massive volcanic breccia. An upper unit of poorly bedded, well sorted greywacke caps the succession. Amygdaloidal basalt and andesite outcrop to the east and south where they are interlayered with the epiclastic rocks. Vesicles are filled with carbonate, zeolite and chalcocite.
Locally, a highly fractured, malachite stained, rusty weathering limestone(?) is exposed for 45.7 metres along the east side of an old logging access road. Stringers and disseminated grains of chalcocite, bornite and rarely chalcopyrite are visible on freshly broken surfaces. Much of the rock is strongly oxidized to a soft, rusty gossan locally rich in malachite.
Work History
In 1970, Grenmac Silver Mines Ltd. completed a 10.0 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Hunt claims.
In 1972, Western Copper Mines Ltd. completed a 27.2 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey and several short percussion drill holes, totalling 30 metres, on the area as the SA claims. No assays were reported from the drilling.
In 2013, Laurence Sookochoff, on the behalf of Guy and Christopher Delorme, completed a photo-geological (lineament) analysis on the area as the Bertha property.
