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File Created: 06-Jan-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  28-Mar-2009 by Gloria Robinson (GLR)

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Name CHICAGO CREEK Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M022
Status Showing NTS Map 093M04E
Latitude 055º 12' 32'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 41' 34'' Northing 6118816
Easting 583184
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

An unnamed silver-lead-zinc occurrence (#244) is shown on Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2322 as being located four kilometres southwest of New Hazelton near Chicago Creek.

The showing is documented as being a vein or fracture-related occurrence hosted in a small stock of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions and in Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group sedimentary rocks. The Bulkley Intrusions are mainly granodiorite in composition, and the Bowser Lake Group sedimentary rocks are mainly sandstone, siltstone, shale, conglomerate and argillite and minor coal and carbonaceous units.

No other information is available on the occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR PF Rimfire (Bethlehem Copper (1972): Copper Belt Project, Geological Plan map)
GSC OF *2322 (#244)
EMPR PFD 822204

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