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File Created: 04-Feb-2014 by Nicole Barlow (NB)
Last Edit:  12-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name STAFFORD Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K073
Status Showing NTS Map 092K14W
Latitude 050º 47' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 26' 43'' Northing 5628947
Easting 327639
Commodities Tungsten, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Stafford Tungsten showing is located 11 kilometres north of the Frazer Arm of Loughborough Inlet, 100 kilometres north of Campbell River.

Regionally, the area is underlain by the Mesozoic Coast Plutonic Complex.

Locally, the area is underlain by plutonics ranging from tonalite to quartz-monzonite with predominant granodiorite and quartz-diorite. Granitoid gneiss, schist and amphibolite are also in the area and host the calc-silicate skarn deposits.

Mineralization occurs as scheelite within a complex of calc-silicate horizons. It is most prominent within a medium to coarse-grained garnet pyroxene skarn. The lower zone or horizon is located at 100 metres elevation while an upper zone is located 60 metres higher in elevation. The sedimentary host rocks are well foliated and strike northwest at 150 degres and dip almost vertical. Relic bedding can be seen in the limestone unit and the contact zone with the quartz diorite. The zone is approximately 150 metres wide by at least 60 metres in vertical. One diorite dike occurs within the showing and may separate two types of calc-silicate rock.

In 2009, Dentonia Resources Ltd. staked the property and completed rock channel and panel sampling. Highlights of the channel sampling include the first 9 metres of channel SL, which assayed 0.15 per cent tungsten and 0.25 per cent copper, and a section from 16 to 29 metres, which assayed 0.12 per cent tungsten and 0.06 per cent copper over 14 metres, including a 1 metre section that assayed 0.45 per cent tungsten (Assessment Report 31688).

In 2010, Dentonia Resources Ltd. conducted 565 line-kilometres of radiometric and magnetic geophysical surveys.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *31688, *32519
Turner, J.A. (2009-10-09): Technical Report on the Knight Inlet Area Claims – “Stafford property” – Geology, Mineralization and Potential

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