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File Created: 22-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  30-Aug-1999 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI 103B6 Cu2
Name LOTUS (L.1860), IKEDA 7, IKEDA 8 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B025
Status Showing NTS Map 103B06E
Latitude 052º 16' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 10' 06'' Northing 5794736
Easting 352092
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

This showing is located on the southeast coast of Moresby Island about 1.2 kilometres southwest of Ikeda Cove at an elevation of about 152 metres. It was originally the Lotus Crown-granted claim, Lot 1860, but is now held by recorded claims Ikeda Nos. 7 and 8, part of the large block held by Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited (see Lily, 103B 028).

The showing was discovered by A. Ikeda and associates while prospecting in the vicinity of their Lily showings in the period 1901 to 1906. It was originally part of their Lotus Group of six claims. The claim was developed by a 23-metre open cut and a 36.5-metre adit driven in 1918 at an elevation of 146 metres.

The Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation consisting primarily of basalt is conformably overlain by limestone of the Upper Triassic Sadler Formation (Kunga Group). A sulphide-rich massive replacement body, consisting of pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite, occurs at the contact between Sadler limestones and Karmutsen volcanics. The ore body is exposed on surface for 10 by 6 metres and is cut by a 14 metres adit. A 3-metre drill hole section contained 0.58 per cent copper, 17.6 grams per tonne silver and 0.25 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14818).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1907-65; 1958-72
EMPR ASS RPT 193, 14189, *14818
EMPR BULL *54, p. 211
EMPR EXPL 1985-C362; 1986-C418
EMPR PF (McDougall, J.J., (1956): Report on Properties at Ikeda Bay, Queen Charlotte Islands, Jun.6, 1956 (refer to the Lily Mine - 103B 028))
EMR Mineral Resources Branch; Metals Committee File: MC 167-C3-2-10
EMR MP CORPFILE: (Ikeda Mines, Limited; St. Eugene Mining Corporation, Limited)
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 88-1E, pp. 213-216,221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 163-172; 91-1A, pp. 383-391
CANMET RPT MC 167-C3-2-10
MIN REV March/April 1988, pp. 19-24
Falconbridge File

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