The Bornite occurrence, located on the 1976 ZD 76-1 diamond drill hole (Assessment Report 6034), is approximately 7.3 kilometres north northeast of Sustut Lake.

The regional geology is similar to that of the Copper King occurrence (094D 149), which lies 2.3 kilometreS to the northwest.

The oldest rocks are pyroxene porphyry flows and bladed feldspar porphyry flows of the Savage Mountain Formation. These are overlain by a mixed package of pyroclastics which include a well-bedded waterlain sequence, agglomerates, breccias and lapilli tuffs of the Moosevale Formation (Takla Group). The flows are moderately fractured and jointed. These flows are intruded by an unnamed Early Jurassic quartz diorite intrusion.

The diamond drill hole intersected Moosevale lapilli tuffs, breccias and ash tuffs of the Moosevale Formation lieing on a mixture of Savage Mountain rocks consisting of alternating bladed feldspar porphyry and hornblende porphyry flows. Both the tuffs and porphyry flows contain disseminated hematite and magnetite.

Alteration minerals include epidote, carbonate, zeolite, sericite and chlorite. The sericitic alteration is weakly pervasive within the bladed feldspar porphyry and the other alteration minerals are common as fracture fillings or in amygdules (Assessment Report 6034).

Chalcopyrite occurs in carbonate-filled fractures in the pyroclastic unit and as dicrete disseminations in clasts of bladed feldspar porphyry in the tuffs. Pyrite commonly occurs with the chalcopyrite.

Mineralization within the bladed feldspar porphyry consists of chalcocite, bornite and chalcopyrite. Mineralization occurs in amygdules associated with calcite and in fracture fillings associated with epidote and pumpellyite (Assessment Report 6034). Chalcopyrite also occurs disseminated in the porphyry and is found with lesser amounts of chalcocite in fracture fillings. Minor malachite staining is associated with fractures and trace amounts of molybdenum has been noted (Assessment Report 6034).

Surface mineralization, approximately 1 kilometre to the north, is restricted to small shears and veinlets. These contain chalcopyrite, chalcocite and bornite associated with epidotization of these structures. This zone includes the siliceous zone referred to by Legun, which is located in a ridge notch and called the Bornite North zone (Open File 2001-2). These structures cut the updip extension of the rock types described in the ZD 76-1 diamond drill hole.

WORK HISTORY

C.S. Lord of the Geological Survey of Canada (GSC) conducted geological mapping of the 94D sheet in 1941, 1944 and 1945, locating the copper, silver, gold occurrences of D.S. (094D 004) Bornite (094D 037) and many others (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 251).

In 1976, BP Minerals Limited drilled 2 diamond-drill holes, DDH ZD 76-1 (106.1 metres), the location of the Bornite occurrence (094D 037), and ZD 76-2 (18.6 metres) located about 750 metres north-northwest of ZD 76-1 (Assessment Report 6034). No assays results were reported but chalcocite plus/minus bornite was noted in the drill logs as being associated with epidotized zones.

In 2015, Pacific Empire Minerals Corp. collected 15 rock samples and completed a 4 line-kilometre IP survey over the main target area, from the Copper King showing (094D 149) towards the ING (094 151) showing (Assessment Report 35685). Rock samples were collected southwest of Copper King and D.S. (094D 004) and north and northeast of Bornite (094D 037).

In early 2017, Pacific Empire completed ASTER data processing and analysis on the Copper King property, covering 4178.2 hectares (Assessment Report 36615). The survey covered all occurrences on the Copper King Property including D.S. (094D 004), Bornite (094D 037), Copper King (094D 149), Nika (094D 150), ING (094D 151), Geni (094D 152) and Jo (094D 153).

In 2016 and 2017, airborne magnetic surveys were flown on behalf of Pacific Empire Minerals Corp over the Copper King Property totaling 109 line-kilometres (Assessment Report 36613, 36815). The survey covered all occurrences on the Copper King Property including D.S. (094D 004), Bornite (094D 037), Copper King (094D 149), Nika (094D 150), ING (094D 151), Geni (094D 152) and Jo (094D 153).

See Copper King (094D 149) for details of the Copper King property which included the Bornite occurrence.