Mine Data
Beneath the Surface of the Earth
The New Sunro Copper Project near Jordan River, BC, is considered a Tholeiitic, intrusion-hosted, Nickel-Copper deposit. The deposit itself is within basaltic lavas of the Metchosin Volcanics, while the mineralization appears to be genetically related to the emplacement of the Eocene Sooke Gabbro.
Mineralization is at and near the Gabbroic contacts, which at the New Sunro Copper Project site, are typically elongate sills. According to the B.C. Ministry of Energy & Mines Capsule Geology (BC MINFILE 092C 073)
Inspector of Mines, Greg Carriere points his geologist’s hammer at the mineral deposits that occur naturally in the rock in this area. The iron ore is rusty brown because it has been exposed to the environment. Circa April 2000.
The greenish-blue colouring shows a vein of copper and the rusty brown is iron. Circa April 2000.
The natural landscape by the edge of the riverbed shows how ore deposits become rusty brown when exposed to the elements. Items like this steel pipe, carelessly discarded decades ago, will be cleaned up once New Sunro Copper Ltd. commences work in the area. Circa April 2000.
For more detailed mine data information:
- New Sunro Total Magnetic Intensity with Mineralized Zones 1to20K-1
- New Sunro Total Magnetic Intensity with Mineralized Zones 1to20K-1_1
- New Sunro Radiometric Potassium Equivalent Concentration with Mineralized Zones 1to20K-1
- New Sunro Mineralized Zones with 1921 Geology 1to20K-2
- New Sunro Mineralized Zones with 1921 Geology 1to20K-1
- Central Area Vertical Magnetic Gradient with Mineralized Zones and 1921 Geology 1to10K
- Central Area Total Magnetics with Mineralized Zones and 1921 Geology 1to10K
- Central Area Radiometric Potassium with Mineralized Zones and 1921 Geology 1to10K
- Central Area New Sunro Map 1to10K
- Central Area Mineralized Zones and 1921 Geology 1to10K
- MapPlace 1to50K
