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File Created: 26-Mar-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  29-Jul-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name JULY 10TH, JULY 10, BUFFY 1-2, FOGMESS, FOG-MESS, UDS Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094E007
Status Showing NTS Map 094E02E
Latitude 057º 04' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 37' 33'' Northing 6328887
Easting 643896
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The July 10th occurrence is located on a southwest-trending ridge separating Kemess Creek to the south and Attycelley Creek to the north, approximately 10 kilometres northeast of Kemess Lake, about 186 kilometres north-northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The Toodoggone Gold Camp lies within the eastern margin of the Intermontane Belt and is underlain by a northwest-trending belt of Paleozoic to Paleogene sediments, volcanics and intrusions. Regionally, the area is situated 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. Devonian to Permian Asitka Group crystalline limestones are the oldest rocks exposed in the region and are commonly in thrust contact with Upper Triassic Stuhini Group marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks, andesite flows and pyroclastic rocks. These units have been intruded by the granodiorite to quartz monzonite of the Early Jurassic Black Lake Suite and are in turn unconformably overlain by or faulted against dacitic volcanics and volcaniclastics of the Lower Jurassic Toodoggone Formation (Hazelton Group).

The dominant structures in the area are steeply dipping faults that define a prominent regional northwest structural fabric trending 140 to 170 degrees. 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. A major structural zone associated with the Saunders Creek regional fault cuts diagonally through the area, striking northwest.

The geology of the area is separated into four, northwest trending, fault-bound panels. The occurrence is underlain by the west-central panel, an up-faulted panel of regionally propylitic-altered Toodoggone volcanics in the south portion and Stuhini volcanics in the northern portion. A major north-northwest striking fault separates the hosting panel from structurally higher, zeolitized Toodoggone volcanics to the east. Stuhini Group volcanics are characterized by augite and plagioclase porphyry, basalt and andesite flows and breccias. Several members of the Toodoggone Formation are present. The Adoogacho Member, the lowest stratigraphic division, consists of reddish and mauve, variably welded ash flows and lapilli-ash tuffs with subordinate block-lapilli tuff, epiclastics and rare andesitic lava flows interbedded with ash-flow tuffs (Bulletin 86). These rocks are propylitically altered with argillic overprinting. The Moyez Member consists of grey to maroon conglomerates containing 20 to 30 per cent by volume granite clasts averaging 4 centimetres in diameter.

Locally, fine grained, carbonate-chlorite altered volcanics and aplite dikes host minor disseminated chalcopyrite and malachite. In 2006, a chip sample (6628) assayed 0.409 per cent copper and 0.01 per cent molybdenum over 1.0 metre (Assessment Report 28649). In 2014, a rock sample (261913) of mineralized aplite dike assayed 0.67 per cent copper (Assessment Report 34942).

The area has been historically explored in conjunction with the nearby August occurrence (094E 244) located 790 metres north, and Mess occurrence (094E 070) located 1.8 kilometres west.

During 2003 through 2006, Stealth Minerals Ltd. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and geological mapping in the area as the Fog-Mess property.

During 2014 through 2017, Serengeti Resources Inc. completed programs of prospecting, rock, silt and soil sampling and a 9.0 line kilometre induced polarization survey on the area as the UDS property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 27429, 27636, *28649, *34942, 36774
EMPR BULL 86
EMPR EXPL 1975-E163-E167; 1976-E175-E177; 1977-E216-E217; 1978-E244-E246; 1979-265-267; 1980-421-436; 1982-330-345; 1983-475-488; 1984-348-357; 1985-C349-C362; 1986-C388-C414; 1987-C328-C346; 1988-C185-C194; 2003-19; 2004-43,44; 2005-45
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 124-129; 1983, pp. 122-129, 135-141; 1982, pp. 125-127; 1983, pp. 137-138, 142-148; 1984, pp. 139-145, 291-293; 1985, pp. 167-169, 299; 1987, pp. 111, 114-115
EMPR GEM 1969-103; 1971-63-71; 1972-482; 1973-456-463
EMPR GEOLOGY 1977-1981, pp. 156-161
EMPR MAP 61 (1985)
EMPR OF 2001-01
GSC BULL 270
GSC OF 306; 483
GSC P 80-1A, pp. 27-32
ECON GEOL Vol.86, pp. 529-554, 1991

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