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File Created: 02-Feb-2001 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  02-Dec-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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Name SABLE Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H071
Status Showing NTS Map 092H12E
Latitude 049º 43' 24'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 49' 59'' Northing 5508520
Easting 584100
Commodities Nickel, Copper, Palladium, Chromium, Cobalt Deposit Types M02 : Tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A grant from the province in 2001 enabled prospector Murray McClaren to undertake an exploration program in the Harrison Lake area where he discovered a new nickel-copper occurrence. A grab sample taken from a 100 metre-wide outcrop of variably sulphidic quartz amphibolite schist yielded 0.19 per cent copper, 0.31 per cent nickel, 0.029 per cent cobalt, 0.032 per cent chromium and 0.08 grams per tonne palladium (Houle, Personal Communication, 2000). The observed sulphides are primarily pyrrhotite (up to 10 per cent) and chalcopyrite (trace).

Bibliography
EM EXPL 2001-23-31; 2002-29-40,65-80
EMPR OF 1990-27
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 2000-3 by Murray McClaren; Prospectors Report 2001-31 by
Murray McClaren)
GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 41-1989
GSC P 69-47

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