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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Feb-1995 by David G. Bailey (DGB)

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NMI 093F15 Ag1
Name HIDDEN Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093F098
Status Showing NTS Map 093F15E
Latitude 053º 58' 28'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 32' 57'' Northing 5981789
Easting 398394
Commodities Silver, Lead, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The region in which the showing occurs is within the Inter- montane Belt, underlain dominantly by Lower to Middle Jurassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton Group. These as- semblages are overlain by the Upper Cretaceous to Lower Tertiary Ootsa Lake Group and Miocene plateau basalt. Intruding Lower Jurassic rocks of the Hazelton Group in the northeastern part of the map sheet is a belt of granodiorite, diorite and quartz diorite plutons of the Lower Jurassic Topley intrusive suite. Felsic plutons of probable Cretaceous age intrude both Lower and Middle Jurassic Hazelton strata.

The Topley intrusive suite in the northeastern part of the map sheet is host to a number of mineral occurrences, mainly molybdenite. The Hidden occurrence, however, consists of pyrite-galena mineralization within an 8 metre wide quartz vein in sheared Topley granodiorite. The vein, which strikes 025 degrees and dips 60 degrees west, is oxidized in places. Anomalous gold and silver values accompany the sulphide mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1931-A75
EMPR PF (Claim Map, Fraser Lake Project Feb. 1978)
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-481; 1993, pp. 9-14; 1994, pp. 167-170, 193-197
EMPR EXPL 1992-69-106
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 115-120
GSC MEM 324
GSC MAP 1131A; 1424A
EMPR PFD 14515, 810090, 810112

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