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File Created: 07-Jun-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  11-Jun-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name PRYCE CHANNEL 7 Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K036
Status Showing NTS Map 092K07W
Latitude 050º 22' 55'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 53' 57'' Northing 5582823
Easting 364978
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Pryce Channel 7 occurrence is located on a north flowing tributary of the Quatam River, approximately 25 metres downstream and upstream of a former logging road bridge.

The area is underlain by intrusive rock of the Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex. Samples from 10 kilometres west on Bute Inlet give an age of 97 to 99 million years by the potassium-argon method from biotite and hornblende (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 480).

Locally, disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite are hosted by a minor epidote altered granodiorite. Quartz veins in the granodiorite locally host disseminated, fracture filling and blebby molybdenite with trace chalcopyrite.

In 2010, samples of the mineralized granodiorite assayed up to 0.468 per cent copper and 0.720 per molybdenum, while a sample (MHR40) of quartz vein material assayed 4.10 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 32318).

In 2007, Archangel Resources took rock samples from the area. In 2010, AZ Copper completed a program of rock and soil sampling.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 30384, *32318
EMPR GEM 1971-315
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC OF *480

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