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File Created: 31-Aug-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  09-Feb-2016 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name ELMO, BUMBLEBEE, NEW MOON Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093E092
Status Showing NTS Map 093E13W
Latitude 053º 56' 07'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 50' 32'' Northing 5976950
Easting 576000
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Elmo showing is hosted in rocks of the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation, Hazelton Group. A small Eocene stock of the Coast Plutonic Complex intrudes the strata to the immediate southwest of the area. Extensive masses of quartz diorite of the Middle Jurassic Trapper Plutonic Suite intrude to the north, west and south.

It is situated on the west edge of the New Moon property approximately 150 metres outside the properties claim boundaries. The zone consists of numerous mafic and felsic dike phases which crosscut bedded andesitic volcaniclastics, basalt and pyritic argillite. These units become hornfelsed and potassium-metasomatized to the north. Zones of extensive silica, chlorite and pyrite alteration occur over an area of at least 300 by 100 metres. The hornfelsed and metasomatized zones as well as proximal granite dikes suggest that the alteration and mineralization is of skarn origin related to a nearby but unidentified intrusion. Thirty-six (36) grab samples were collected from the Elmo showing in 2007 with only one sample showing anomalous base metal signatures. Massive pyrite sample 07KHP059 hosted in chloritic andesite yielded 0.26 per cent copper, 0.62 per cent lead and 0.23 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 29585). The Elmo showing was discovered in 2007 during reconnaissance work around the Shadow showing.

The Bumblebee showing is located about 375 metres southwest of the Elmo showing on the opposite side of the river which runs through the Elmo showing. It is an 800 by 500 metre area characterized by spotty localized copper-bearing outcrops and boulders. Twenty-six (26) grab samples were taken in the Bumblebee area in 2007. The only element shown to be anomalous in all of the samples was copper, with values as high as 3.6 per cent (07ARP214) from an epidote-magnetite-chalcopyrite bearing poddy vein (Assessment Report 29585).

Refer to New Moon (093E 011) for related geological and work history details of those showings such as the Elmo and Bumblebee showings that occur on the New Moon property.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1976-E139; 1978-E197; 1982-284; 1983-413
EMPR FIELDWORK 1978, pp. 99,100; *1989, pp. 83-99
EMPR GEM 1971-146; 1973-323; 1974-244
EMPR OF 1990-15; 1992-1; 1999-2; 1994-14; 1998-10
GSC MAP 367A; 1064A
GSC MEM 299
GSC OF 351; 708
GSC P 72-1A; 79-1A

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