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File Created: 22-May-2019 by Luke Ootes (LO)
Last Edit:  27-May-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name 18 AB-17-2 Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C002
Status Showing NTS Map 094C04E
Latitude 056º 00' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 42' 35'' Northing 6210906
Easting 331080
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The 18 AB-17-2 occurrence is located approximately 16 kilometres southeast of Ferriston Peak between the Osilinka and Omineca rivers, about 68 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The showing is underlain by Duckling Creek suite syenite in the Early Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Hogem Plutonic Suite in Quesnel terrane. The Duckling Creek suite, previously referred to as the Duckling Creek Syenite Complex, is mostly syenite to monzonite, with lesser monzodiorite and local biotite pyroxenite.

Copper mineralization is observed as malachite alteration and iron staining in syenite. In 2018, a grab sample (18ab-17-2) yielded assay results of 2150 parts per million copper, 73 parts per billion gold, and 1.8 parts per million silver (Fieldwork 2018, page 49).

The showing was mapped by the British Columbia Geological Survey during a regional bedrock mapping program in the Hogem batholith in 2018.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 70
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 127-145; 1992, pp. 109-134; *2018, pp. 31-53; 2019, pp. 25-47
EMPR OF 2019-02; 2020-02
EMPR P 1992-01, pp. 127-145; 1993-01, pp. 109-134; 2019-01, pp. 31-53; 2020-01, pp. 25-47
EMPR PRELIM MAP 9
GSC MAP 907A; 962A; 1030A
GSC MEM 274
GSC P 46-11; 48-5; 76-1A, pp. 69-73
GBC 2018-1, pp. 1-6; 2021-01, pp. 105-120
Woodsworth, G.J., Anderson, R.G., and Armstrong, R.L. (1991): Plutonic regimes, Chapter 15. In: Gabrielse, H., and Yorath, C.J., (Eds.), Geology of the Cordilleran Orogen in Canada, Geological Survey of Canada, Geology of Canada, no. 4, pp. 491-531

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