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File Created: 25-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)
Last Edit:  25-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name SWANSEA, WESCO Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082J051
Status Showing NTS Map 082J12W
Latitude 050º 30' 28'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 56' 49'' Northing 5595620
Easting 574671
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types E04 : Sediment-hosted Cu
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Swansea occurrence, tan and white weathering blocky dolomites of the Middle-Upper Cambrian Jubilee Formation are cut by a fault zone trending 020 degrees and dipping about 75 degrees west. The dolomites along this zone are faulted and brecciated with the breccia healed by carbonate containing disseminations and patches of malachite and azurite with associated bornite, chalcocite and chalcopyrite. A grab sample of malachite-azurite-rich material returned an assay high of 17.5 per cent copper. The fault-breccia zone is variable in width and appears to be located along a single fault zone which hosts both the Swansea and Rose 1 (082JSW007) showings.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1039
EMPR ASS RPT 2437, 2667, 3504, 7084, 7782, 9958
EMPR BULL 35, p. 65
EMPR EXPL 1978-E73
EMPR GEM 1970-469; 1971-419; 1972-68
EMPR OF 1992-14
GSC MAP 24-1958
GSC OF 634

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