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File Created: 23-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  28-Jul-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name FIN Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094E059
Status Showing NTS Map 094E09E
Latitude 057º 35' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 14' 53'' Northing 6386741
Easting 664480
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Fin occurrence is located on the western flank of Mount Finlay, between the Finlay River and Cutoff Creek, about 222 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing. The Urn showing (094E 220) is located approximately 480 metres to the northwest.

The showing area is underlain by a sequence of Lower Cambrian Atan Group sediments comprising a thick sequence of phyllitic limestone, shale, shaley limestone, dolomite, siltstone, sandstone, phyllites, and pure and impure quartzite. Feldspar porphyry dikes follow late normal faulting in the area.

Locally, quartz veins surrounded by discrete gossan envelopes host malachite, tetrahedrite, and chalcopyrite with minor specular hematite.

The first recorded activity in the area of the Fin claims was a program of soil sampling and rock geochemistry in 1981 by UMEX Inc. This program outlined a significant coincident lead-zinc-copper soil anomaly over a one kilometre strike. No further work is recorded after this date.The Fin claims were staked in March 1992 by Major General Resources Inc. under agreement with Kennecott Canada Inc. In 1992, a program of prospecting and rock chip sampling was completed on the Fin claim. One rock sample (FKG-002) of mineralized quartz vein material yielded greater than 1 per cent copper; rock sample FKG-001 assayed 0.41 per cent copper and 5.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 22768).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *22768
EMPR BULL 86
GSC BULL 270
GSC OF 306; 483
GSC MAP 14-1973
GSC P 76-1A, pp. 87-90; 80-1A, pp. 27-32; 80-1B, pp. 207-211

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