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File Created: 03-Sep-2009 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  05-Jun-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name IROQUOIS, GN 1 Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093J084
Status Showing NTS Map 093J14E
Latitude 054º 53' 41'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 13' 21'' Northing 6083100
Easting 485735
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Iroquois occurrence is located near the north bank of Iroquois Creek, approximately 350 metres east of the creek's confluence with the McLeod River.

Regionally, the area is underlain by mudstone, siltstone, shale, limestone, fine clastic sedimentary rocks and basaltic volcanic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Takla Group.

Locally, light grayish altered limestone hosts quartz veins with dendritic chalcopyrite. Quartz diorite veins and stringers are reported to show good chalcopyrite mineralization. The quartz veins are carrying ‘nodules’ of chalcopyrite up to 3 centimetres in size as well as dendrites through the fractures in the quartz itself. Further along the creek porphyritic rock shows fine metallic stringers throughout that appears to be chalcopyrite.

Though chalcopyrite is reported copper values in analysis sheets are uniformly low. One sample did yield a gold assay of 0.145 gram per tonne (Assessment Report 22392).

Work History

During 1981 through 1989, Ezekiel Explorations Ltd. completed programs of geological mapping, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and airborne and ground (magnetic and electromagnetic) geophysical surveys on the area immediately northwest of the occurrence as the GN 1-18 claims of the G North property.

In 1991, W. Brent McEwen prospected and sampled his Iroquois claims.

In 2020 and 2021, Golden Planet Mining Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of prospecting, geological mapping, geochemical (rock, till and soil) sampling and a 4851.0-line-kilometre airborne magnetic and electromagnetic survey on the area as the Rider property.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 1204A; 1424A

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