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File Created: 18-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  30-Aug-1999 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI 103B6 Fe13
Name PLUNGER, IVAN, HILL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B025
Status Showing NTS Map 103B06E
Latitude 052º 15' 34'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 11' 26'' Northing 5792156
Easting 350497
Commodities Iron, Copper, Magnetite Deposit Types K03 : Fe skarn
K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

This property is located on the southeast coast of Moresby Island about 0.3 kilometre east of the head of Huston Inlet between 91 and 259 metres elevation. In 1968 the property was held as the Plunger Nos. 1-4 by The Granby Mining Company Limited and is part of a large group held by Granby and Jedway Iron Ore Limited (see Jessie, 103B 026).

Apparently the showings were originally known as the Ivan Group which was discovered in 1908. The group consisted of three claims held by Messrs. I. Thompson, W. Mckinnon and A. Sivart. They worked the group until 1914, driving 21 metres of adit and doing surface work.

In 1962, Jedway Iron Ore Limited carried out 46 metres of packsack drilling on the property.

A 150 by 8-metre skarn with magnetite, pyrite and chalcopyrite occurs as a replacement of a northwest-trending shear zone in metasomatically altered greenstone of the Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation near the contact with diorite of the Burnaby Island Plutonic Suite. Post-mineralization rhyolite and basalt dikes and minor limestone occur in the area.

About 100 metres north is a 15 by 9-metre magnetite garnet skarn.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1908-60; 1909-71; 1910-84; 1911-76; 1912-110; 1913-101,104; 1914-162
EMPR ASS RPT 9702
EMPR BULL *54, p. 214, 220
EMPR EXPL 1981-358
GSC EC GEOL Series 3, Vol. 1, 1926, pp. 42,43
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 88-1E, pp. 213-216,221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 59-87; 91-1A, pp. 383-391
MIN REV March/April 1988, pp. 19-24
EMPR PFD 840917

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