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File Created: 13-Feb-1992 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)
Last Edit:  16-Feb-2023 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name CONCHA 32, CONCHA, CONCHA 1-7, GRACE, GRACE 1-14, GRACE 1-5, VIP, VIP 1-40, SKARN, SKARN 1-8, WRICH, WRICH 1-2, JOK, JOK 1-6, FINLAY RIVER Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094E016
Status Showing NTS Map 094E02W
Latitude 057º 10' 08'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 49' 53'' Northing 6338272
Easting 631128
Commodities Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Concha 32 occurrence is located approximately 10.5 kilometres north of Thutade Lake and 6.5 kilometres southeast of Drybrough Peak, about 275 kilometres north of the community of Smithers.

The showing crops out on the east side of the Finlay River in the Omineca-Cassiar mountains. The occurrence is at the southern end of the Toodoggone Gold Camp which lies within the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt and is underlain by a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Tertiary sediments, volcanics and intrusions. The showing occurs within a Mesozoic volcanic arc assemblage bounded to the east by the Omineca Belt and to the west and southwest by the Sustut and Bowser basins.

Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region. They are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Stuhini Group andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These Stuhini rocks have been intruded by plutons and other bodies of the mainly granodiorite to quartz monzonite Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against Lower Jurassic calcalkaline volcanics of the Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults which define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. In turn, high angle northeast-striking faults (approximately 060 degrees) appear to truncate and displace northwest-striking faults. Collectively these faults form a boundary for variably rotated and tilted blocks underlain by monoclinal strata.

Stuhini Group dark green andesitic lapilli tuffs with trace pyrite and locally thin bedded andesitic tuffs, striking 120 to 135 degrees and dipping 73 to 82 degrees north, underlie the Concha 32 showing. Stuhini volcanics are variably chlorite and epidote altered. The contact between the Stuhini Group volcanics and the Toodoggone Formation volcanics lies less than 1 kilometre to the east. Toodoggone volcanics consist of crystal ash tuffs and flows with lesser agglomerates. Granodiorite of the Black Lake stock (of the Black Suite) lies less than 1 kilometre to the west.

Nine separate quartz-carbonate veins crop out over a 2-metre width. Individual veins are narrow, the widest being 10 to 20 centimetres wide, and striking 040 degrees and dipping 70 degrees east. Mineralization in these veins consists of galena with lesser chalcopyrite, sphalerite and pyrite.

In 1987, two samples were taken from this group of veins and assay results from both yielded anomalous base and precious metals values. Sample R-6804 assayed 27.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.310 gram per tonne gold, 1.026 per cent copper, 0.0063 per cent zinc and trace lead. Sample E-10511 assayed 6.1 grams per tonne silver, 1.483 per cent zinc, 0.8996 per cent lead, 0.0262 per cent copper and trace gold (Assessment Report 17459).

The Concha 1 to 6 claims were staked in the fall of 1987 on behalf of Skylark Resources Ltd. to cover the Finlay River valley. Bedrock exposure in this area is generally poor except along the Finlay River and tributaries draining into it. Samples 6801 to 6804 and 10507 to 10511 were taken from the east bank of the Finlay River on the Concha 3 claim.

Bibliography
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Rebagliati, C.M., Titley, E. (2020-05-14): Technical Report Summarizing Exploration Work on the JOY Project, Toodoggone Region, British Columbia, Canada
Rebagliati, C.M., Titley, E. (2020-05-14): Technical Report Summarizing Exploration Work on the JOY Project, Toodoggone Region, British Columbia, Canada (Revision 1)

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