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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Aug-1999 by Janet M. Riddell (JMR)

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NMI 093D7 Cu1
Name BELLA COOLA, SURE COPPER, O'GA Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 093D035
Status Showing NTS Map 093D06E, 093D07W
Latitude 052º 23' 23'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 05' 00'' Northing 5806114
Easting 630428
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The showings are apparently located on the west side of Necleetsconnay River about 600 metres north of Bella Coola. The Bella Coola property was owned and prospected by the Bella Coola Copper Co. in 1907 and 1908. The Sure Copper claim group was held by the North Coast Copper Company from 1908 to 1910. They drove two adits on the O'ga claim, the upper one 22 metres long, the lower 37 metres long.

The region is underlain mainly by the Paleozoic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex consisting predominantly of crystalline rocks which exhibit a variety of fabrics ranging from pre-to post- kinematic. Paragneisses of (?)Paleozoic age, younger deformed metasediments and volcanics related to the Stikinia Terrane are interspersed within the plutonic complex. The northeastern part of the Bella Coola map area is underlain primarily by mafic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Jurassic Hazelton Group. These rocks are variably deformed containing both northeast and northwest trending structures.

Between the Hazelton Group of the Stikinia Terrane to the east and the Coast Plutonic Complex with its deformed metasedimentary terrane to the west, is a belt of dominantly mafic rocks. These rocks are probably of volcanic origin and may be part of the Hazelton Group.

Little has been reported on this showing other than it consists of pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization. Assays were reported as high as 9.6 per cent copper; gold values were also reported. Its given location would place the showing in a quartz monzonite pluton of the Coast Plutonic Complex.

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK 2002, pp. 65-75
EMPR AR 1907-74; 1908-J58; 1909-56; 1910-83
GSC MAP 1327A; 1424A
GSC MEM 372, p. 99

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