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File Created: 17-Aug-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  16-Feb-2017 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI
Name STRAIGHT, PLAY Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093E055
Status Showing NTS Map 093E11E
Latitude 053º 32' 04'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 02' 07'' Northing 5933510
Easting 630210
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Straight showing occurs in the Telkwa Formation of the Hazelton Group. Intrusive dikes and plugs of the Upper Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite occur in the vicinity of the showings. Most of the bedrock here is coarse to fine-grained lithic crystal lapilli tuffs, red tuffaceous mudstones and feldspar porphyries though silicic tuff and crystal-lithic rhyolite-dacite were also noted. Bedding appears to have a northeast trend. The intrusive rocks are comprised of diorite, monzonitic diorite and pink granite dikes and/or plugs.

In 1986, a quartz-vein quartz breccia system trending 005 degrees dipping 60 degrees westerly was exposed. The vein was exposed in two open cuts, measuring 2 metres width, and is traceable for 30 metres before becoming lost in overburden and in the creek. Immediately north of the creek, the vein swings abruptly to a strike of 040 degrees dipping 65 degrees northwest and thins to an 80 centimetre wide quartz stockwork zone. The vein hanging wall is associated with a 1 to 2 metre wide clay gouge zone comprised of crushed quartz wall rock and pyrite. Immediately adjacent and within the vein, rocks are altered to argillic assemblages, rapidly grading into propylitic assemblages. Highest values obtained from this system are grabs of 0.52 gram per tonne gold and 5.9 grams per tonne silver; a chip sample gave 0.32 gram per tonne gold over 45 centimetres Assessment Report 16146).

See Play (093E 096) for details of the Play property work history on which the Straight showing was originally discovered. And also see the Cummins Creek Veins prospect (093E 100) for further related details of the Troitsa property, including details of a 2007 airborne geophysical survey which covered the Straight area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12326, *16146, 29218
EMPR BULL 66, p. 158; 75
EMPR OF 1987-4; 1994-14
GSC BULL 270, p. 73
GSC MEM 299
GSC OF 708-1980
CIM 1976, Vol. 15, p. 284

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