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File Created: 13-Dec-1992 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  21-May-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name CHOICE, SH, TUT Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C022
Status Showing NTS Map 094C05E
Latitude 056º 16' 09'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 39' 11'' Northing 6239202
Easting 335709
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Choice occurrence is located about 4.5 kilometres south of Tutizzi Lake and approximately 80 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

At the showing, minor disseminated chalcopyrite with malachite haloes and malachite on fracture surfaces occur in volcanic tuffs and augite porphyry (possibly flows) of the Upper Triassic Plughat Mountain Formation (Takla Group). The rocks are locally highly silica, carbonate and epidote altered.

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, Union Miniere Exploration and Mining Corp. Ltd. (UMEX) of Montreal conducted extensive regional exploration in north-central British Columbia. This work located two small but well-defined magnetic anomalies over Takla Group volcanics on the west side of the later (2005) Tut South property and anomalous copper in silts from streams draining the area (as reported in Assessment Report 28253). The Tut South property encompassed the Ache (094C 147) and the Tut 6 (094C 136) occurrences. Follow-up ground surveys indicate several copper occurrences within the volcanics adjacent to the contact with intrusive rocks of the Early Jurassic Hogem Plutonic Suite.

During the early 1990s, the immediate area was explored for copper-gold porphyry deposits jointly by Major General Resources and Swannell Minerals Corporation as the Tut claims. The 1991 work program undertaken by Reliance Geological Services included silt sampling, rock sampling and reconnaissance geological mapping at a scale of 1:10,000. In 1992, four survey grids (grids A, A', B, C) were laid out and geological mapping was performed over much of the property and 27 rock and 259 soil samples were collected for analysis. The Choice and Tut 3 (094C 137) showings were contained within the Tut claims.

The Choice showing was first documented in 1992 by a mapping crew of the British Columbia Geological Survey.

In 2005, Commander Resources Ltd. (formerly called Major General Resources) restaked the southwest part of the old Tut group as the Tut South (which covered the Ache (094C 147) and the Tut 6 (094C 136) occurrences and the eastern part as the Tut. The 2005 Tut claim essentially covered the old (1991-92) Tut 2 claim. A brief program of prospecting and soil sampling was completed.

While the Choice occurrence is just south of the 2005 Tut claim and the Tut 3 (094C 137) is just to the west, some pertinent data is indicated in Major General’s 2005 assessment report (28252).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 21780, 22584, 28252, 28253, 34108
EMPR BULL 93
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 127-145; *1992, pp. 109-134; 2018, pp. 31-53; 2019, pp. 25-47
EMPR P 1992-01, pp. 127-145; 1993-01, pp. 109-134; 2019-01, pp. 31-53; 2020-01, pp. 25-47
EMPR GEOS MAP 2001-10
EMPR OF 1989-17; 1990-13; 1993-2; 1995-6; 1996-19
GBC 2021-01, pp. 105-120
GSC MAP 1030A
GSC MEM 274
GSC OF 864

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