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File Created: 07-Aug-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  03-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CHALCO CREEK, TROITSA PEAK, TROITSA Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093E055
Status Showing NTS Map 093E11E
Latitude 053º 34' 30'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 02' 53'' Northing 5938000
Easting 629250
Commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Chalco Creek showing area is largely underlain by andesitic tuffs of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group and by felsic (rhyolitic) volcanics of the Eocene Ootsa Lake Group. Quartz dioritic stocks, dikes and plugs of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite and Eocene felsitic intrusive rocks intrude the volcanics.

The Chalco Creek showing occurs above a southwest flowing tributary to Cummins Creek where in excess of a dozen quartz veins up to 1.5 meters wide are exposed. These veins, trending northerly, contain pockets of chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and sulphosalt (possibly tetrahedrite) which assay up to 342.86 grams per tonne silver and low gold (Assessment Report 17654).

Refer to Cummins Creek Veins prospect (093E 100) for common details of area work history.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 75
EMPR EXPL 1982-282; 1983-409
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 171-179
EMPR OF 1987-4; 1994-14
GSC MAP 367A; 1064A
GSC MEM 299
GSC OF 708
GSC P 72-1A; 79-1A
GSC SUM RPT 1924, Part A
McRoberts, S.S. (2009-05-01): Summary Report on the Troitsa Property

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