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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Sep-2009 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI 093M1 Cu2
Name FORT, ELDEN Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M008
Status Showing NTS Map 093M01W
Latitude 055º 05' 20'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 25' 50'' Northing 6107699
Easting 663981
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Fort showing is located on the west side of Old Fort Mountain, 4 kilometres north of Babine Lake, 82 kilometres east-southeast of Hazelton.

The area is underlain by rocks of the Kitsumkalum shale, an informal subdivision of the Lower Cretaceous Skeena Group, the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Ashman Formation (Bowser Lake Group) and the Middle Jurassic Smithers Formation (Hazelton Group). These have been intruded by the Eocene Babine Intrusions which comprise monzonite, biotite feldspar porphyry, hornblende feldspar porphyry, feldspar porphyry and diorite. The main sedimentary lithologies are conglomerate, greywacke, shale and siltstone which are hornfelsed adjacent to the Babine Intrusions. Andesitic volcanic rocks are intercalated with some of the sedimentary strata. Numerous northwest-trending block faults traverse the area.

Sulphide mineralization, consisting of pyrite and minor chalcopyrite, occurs adjacent to and within the small plugs of biotite feldspar porphyry.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1966-92; 1968-130
EMPR ASS RPT 2608, *4591
EMPR BULL 110
EMPR GEM 1973-353
EMPR MAP 12
EMPR OF 1997-10, 2001-03
EMPR PF (Eastfield Resources Ltd. Corporate Summary, February 1998)
EMPR PF Placer Dome (W.R. Bacon (1973): Geophysical Report on the Fort 1 and 2 Groups)
GSC OF 2322
Placer Dome File

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