The Sun showing is located 5.0 kilometres south-southeast of Toodoggone Lake and 4.5 kilometres southeast of the Mount Graves occurrence (094E 087). Smithers is 290 kilometres to the south.

The Sun showing is situated within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage which lies along the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt, a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins. Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Takla Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. Takla volcanics have been intruded by the granodiorite to quartz monzonite Black Lake Suite of Early Jurassic age and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation, Hazelton Group.

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle, northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

The most common rock type observed in the Sun showing area is a grey-green porphyritic andesite breccia which contains fragments up to 30 centimetres. The andesite is generally fresh to moderately chloritized and locally weakly to moderately silicified. Weak sericite alteration was also observed in one locality. These rocks have been intruded by small irregular bodies of syenite, syenomonzonite and monzonite. The rocks are generally weakly fractured with a strike of 338 degrees and a dip of 40 degrees southwest. Quartz and quartz-barite veins are erratically distributed throughout the area with no preferred orientation being observed.

Pyrite, up to 5 per cent by volume, with minor chalcopyrite, galena and sphalerite are associated with quartz +/- carbonate veins within andesitic breccia and conglomerate. Anomalous gold and silver have been located.

In 1983, a chip sample assayed 0.48 gram per tonne gold and 47.9 grams per tonne silver over 10 metres of silicified volcanics (Assessment Report 11754). Also at this time, three other chip samples from the same area yielded values of 0.27 gram per tonne gold and 28.7 grams per tonne silver over 2 metres, 19.8 grams per tonne silver over 3 metres and 7.5 grams per tonne silver over 10 metres (Assessment Report 11754).

Sample S-2, a 2-metre chip sample taken in 1984, analysed 0.3 gram per tonne gold and 24.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12830).

Work History

During 1982 through 1985, Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling on the area as the Sun 1-2 claims.