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File Created: 10-Mar-1992 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  30-Mar-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name BIRTHDAY, MICA PEAK Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C047
Status Showing NTS Map 094C07W
Latitude 056º 28' 52'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 45' 36'' Northing 6261016
Easting 391607
Commodities Mica Deposit Types O03 : Muscovite pegmatite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cassiar, Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Birthday mica occurrence is located southwest of Pyramid Peak, 78 kilometres north of the community of Germansen Landing.

A mica-bearing pegmatite dike is hosted in an area of mica schists, gneisses and quartzites of the Neoproterozoic Ingenika Group which have been regionally metamorphosed to the kyanite zone of the amphibolite facies. The pegmatite dike is described as being 15 to 60 metres in width, and more than 450 metres long. Although no mica of "commercial" grade was seen in outcrop, "two or three valuable crystals of muscovite" were observed in float (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1927, Part A, page 33A). Refer to the Family Farm occurrence (094C 034), located 8.4 kilometres north, for further details of these regional pegmatite occurrences.

In 2005, Guardsmen Resources Inc. acquired the Mica Peak property, which covers the Birthday showing, in hopes that appreciable rare earth elements may be found in association with pegmatite zones. During a 1996 visit, heavy snowfall limited exploration to stream silt sampling. Unfortunately, exploration in 2007 was limited to the westernmost part of the property. In 2010, Guardsmen Resources Inc. conducted a two-day reconnaissance silt and rock geochemical sampling program; two mineral prospects, Family Farm (094C 034) and Birthday, were briefly examined.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1926-A153-A155; 1927-C161
EMPR ASS RPT 28896, 29773, 31914
EMPR OF 1995-6; 1996-19
EMPR PF (Report on Mica, anonymous, 1928 (in 094C 035))
EMR MP CORPFILE (General Holding Company Limited)
GSC EC GEOL 19, pp. 83,90
GSC P 75-33, p. 17
GSC SUM RPT *1927, Part A, pp. 31A-35A
GSC OF 864
CANMET RPT 701, pp. 78-80

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