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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Apr-1988 by Laura L. Coughlan (LLC)

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Name KU, KU 1-30 Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H041
Status Showing NTS Map 092H05W
Latitude 049º 28' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 58' 35'' Northing 5481661
Easting 574142
Commodities Zinc, Copper, Silver Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Harrison
Capsule Geology

The property area covers a conformable contact between the Weaver Lake Member comprised mainly of pyroclastics, and the Echo Island Member consisting of tuff, minor agglomerate, sandstone and pelite. Further to the north, both the Weaver Lake and Echo Island members of the Lower-Middle Jurassic Harrison Lake Formation are overlain by Middle-Upper Jurassic pelites, black shale, siltstone and sandstone of the Mysterious Creek Formation.

On the KU property, disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite averaging less than 3 per cent, is disseminated throughout the Weaver Lake Member pyroclastics. Rhyolite tuffs are pyritized and contain greater than 5 per cent pyrite and host bright orange gossans. In 1974, small disseminated fragments of sphalerite were found in a light brown rhyolite unit. Drilling in 1977 intersected fracture controlled chalcopyrite and sphalerite in carbonate (calcite) veinlets hosted by rhyolite breccia and rhyolitic to dacitic tuffs.

A chip sample taken across the light brown pyritic rhyolite assayed 1.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.11 per cent zinc, 0.02 per cent lead and 0.041 per cent copper (Assessment Report 5322).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3729, *4838, *5322, 5755, *6499, 10771
EMPR EXPL 1975-E65; 1977-E125
EMPR FIELDWORK 1984, pp. 120-131; 1985, pp. 95-97
EMPR GEM 1972-102-108,Fig.5,6; 1973-130; 1974-104
EMPR OF 1999-2
GSC MAP 12-1969; 737A
GSC P 69-47; 86-1B, pp. 715-720
Arthur, A.J. (1987): Mesozoic Stratigraphy and Paleontology of the West Side of Harrison Lake, Southwest British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia, Dec. 1987
Chevron File
Crickmay, C.H. (1962): Gross Stratigraphy of the Harrison Lake Area, British Columbia, Evelyn de Mille Books, Calgary, Alberta, p. 12
Ray, G.E. et. al. (1985): Precious Metal Mineralization in Southwest British Columbia, Field Guides to Geology and Mineral Deposits in the South Canadian Cordillera, GAC Section Meeting, Vancouver, British Columbia, May 1985

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