MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082N 052

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	26-Aug-1993	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI
Name	PORPHERY AND IRON HILL (L.268), PORPHYRY AND IRON HILL, EASTERN TOWNSHIP FR (L.269), EAGLE CLIFF (L.307)	Mining Division	Golden
		BCGS Map	082N025
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	082N06E
Latitude	051º 15' 56''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 06' 57''	Northing	5679363
		Easting	491919
Commodities	Copper, Silver	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Ancestral North America

Capsule Geology

The Porphyry and Iron Hill property is located 1 kilometre northwest of the confluence of Canyon and South Canyon creeks, about 8 kilometres west-southwest of Golden. Early work comprised adits and crosscuts totalling about 90 metres.

Bedrock geology consists of Lower Cambrian quartzite and slate cut by felsite dikes (the age is inferred from Geological Survey of Canada Open File 481). A flat-lying quartz vein (10 to 30 degree dips) from 0.7 to 1.8 metres wide is hosted in quartzite and is mineralized with chalcopyrite which attains widths of 10 centimetres to 1 metre.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1898-1053; *1899-594,664,665; 1900-802 EMPR BC METAL MM00574 EMPR PF (82N General File - Prospector's map, 1937) GSC MAP 295A; 4-1961; 43-1962 GSC OF 481 GSC P 62-32