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File Created: 24-Apr-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  16-Oct-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name RAINBOW 2NE, EL TORO Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L055
Status Showing NTS Map 093L11E
Latitude 054º 30' 27'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 06' 30'' Northing 6041630
Easting 622470
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area of the Rainbow 2NE showing is underlain basalt to andesite to rhyolite volcanic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Telkwa Formation, Hazelton Group. A stock of granodioritic quartz feldspar porphyry of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite intrudes to the west. The stock is known as the Sunsets stock.

Sample YR-15 is described as being taken from the same gossanous andesite zone where several other samples were taken 240 metres to the south (Map 1, Assessment Report 21765). This sample contained 2 to 3 per cent pyrite, 2 per cent magnetite and 1 per cent chalcopyrite as blebs and disseminations and assayed 0.064 gram per tonne gold, 11.1 grams per tonne silver and 0.32 per cent copper; samples taken in the gossan 240 metres south ran as high as 0.1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 21765).

An adit is marked as being 200 metres southwest of sample YR-15. It is reported to be 3 metres in length and was driven at the base of a gossan within intensely fractured, weakly silicified andesite to basalt. Spotty mineralization consisted of 8 per cent medium-grained anhedral pyrite and 1 per cent chalcopyrite and 5 per cent magnetite. Up to 2 per cent irregular anastomosing epidote-quartz veins that are 1 to 3 millimetres wide contain chalcopyrite in them or as fracture fillings. A sample (YR-28) taken assayed 0.084 gram per tonne gold, 9.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.27 per cent copper (Assessment Report 21765).

Refer also to King (093L 041) for general information on the El Toro property, a large property that was worked by of Lions Gate Energy Inc from 2007 to present (2015) and encompassed the Sunset Basin area which contains this showing.

Refer to Loring (093L 036) for related details.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *21765, 29206, 29456, 30188, 30731, 30982, 31515, 33275, 34445
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 195-208
EMPR OF 1989-16; 1990-05; 1993-21
EMPR P 1990-2
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC OF 351
EMPR PFD 676242

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