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File Created: 16-Sep-1991 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  17-Feb-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name JONES, GAM Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M002
Status Showing NTS Map 093M04E
Latitude 055º 03' 50'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 36' 24'' Northing 6102788
Easting 588985
Commodities Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Jones showing is located 1.5 kilometres east of the Killarney showing (093M 114) on the west side of the Rocher Deboule Range, 19 kilometres south of New Hazelton.

The showings are hosted in brecciated andesitic volcanic rocks of the Upper Cretaceous Brian Boru Formation (Kasalka Group). Potassium/argon dating of biotite gave a date of 70 million years (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2322).

Mineralization consists of irregular veinlets of pyrite- magnetite, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. The veinlets are hosted in brecciated andesite just east of the contact with the underlying conglomerate member of the older, Lower Cretaceous Red Rose Formation, Skeena Group (Assessment Report 9587).

WORK HISTORY

In 1914, Jones and Bush developed several holes up to 3 metres depth on the Jones showing.

In 1980, 1981, 1984, Asarco Exploration established a grid on the Brian Boru/Killarney occurrence area and collected 156 soil samples. In 1981, IP, VLF-EM and Magnetic surveying was conducted in the Jones and Killarney areas (Assessment Report 9587). Later, mapping and 63 rock and 15 soil samples were collected. In 1985, Asarco, mapped and prospected the Killarney Grid, collecting 74 rock and talus samples; an extension of the soil survey grid was made and 341 samples were collected; silt sampling of creeks resulted in 17 samples.

In 2010, Dunham Gold Corp completed a 495 kilometre airborne geophysical survey on its Porphyry Creek property which covered numerous showings including the Jones occurrence area; the southern limit of the survey is in the Jones area (Assessment Report 31728).

Refer to Sultana (093M 061) for further details of the Porphyry Creek property work history, of which the Brunswick was part of. See also Brian Boru (093M 064) for possible related details.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1914-K193
EMPR ASS RPT *9587, 29082, 29502, 30096, 30431, *31728, 32516, 32326, 33475
EMPR BULL 04; 43
EMPR FIELDWORK 2006, pp. 1-17
EMPR OF 2008-6
GSC OF 720; 2322; 5705

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