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File Created: 10-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  02-Oct-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103B12 Cu2
Name LAST CHANCE, JONES, MERRY K, D, SWEDE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B061
Status Prospect NTS Map 103B12W
Latitude 052º 41' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 48' 46'' Northing 5842426
Easting 309941
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Last Chance occurrence is located south of McEchran Cove.

The dominant rock type in the area is a Vancouver Group amygdaloidal andesite of the Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation that has undergone greenschist-grade regional metamorphism. The volcanics contain interbedded tuffs and limestones, overlain by minor Jurassic to Triassic Kunga limestone, and are cut by diabase dikes.

Locally, copper mineralization occurs in several locations; however, two main horizons, 500 metres apart, have been tested by adits and drilling. Mineralization consists of disseminated and fracture- and vesicle-filled chalcopyrite, commonly associated with epidote, chlorite and quartz within the volcanics. Chalcocite, native copper and bornite are usually present in the more intensely mineralized zones.

In 1916, drilling yielded up to 2 per cent copper over 1.5 metres in hole no.7 and 0.20 per cent copper over 29.4 metres in hole no.2, including 1.24 per cent copper over 2.4 metres (Property File - Ana Lake Mining Ltd. [1970-12-06]: Prospectus - Ana Lake Mining Ltd.).

In 1976, a 3.3-metre chip sample assayed 0.55 per cent copper and 0.08 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 6005).

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Swede (MINFILE 103B 009) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1907-70,71; 1908-61; 1909-71; 1910-85; 1914-162; 1916-87;
1918-40; 1928-65; 1967-58
EMPR ASS RPT *662, *6005, 11603, 12760, 13991, 17719
EMPR BULL *54, pp. 215,216
EMPR EXPL 1976-E161; 1983-492; 1985-C363
EMPR PF (*Carlsen, A. [1970-06-22]: Report - Brandy Mineral Claims; McAllister, S. [1983-11-01]: Compilation Report on the Tasu Area; Selnes, W.E. [1988-12-06]: Prospectus - Ana Lake Mining Ltd.)
EMR MP CORPFILE (*Ana Lake Mining Ltd.)
GSC MAP 278A; 1385A
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E, pp. 221-227; 89-1H
MIN REV March/April 1988, pp. 19-24
EMPR PFD 650255, 17141, 521712

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