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MINFILE No  103B 015
File Created: 26-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  03-Mar-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103B5 Mo1
Name YAKULANAS Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B043
Status Showing NTS Map 103B05E
Latitude 052º 24' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 32' 26'' Northing 5809462
Easting 327194
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types L : PORPHYRY
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The showing is located at sea level on the southwest side of Yakulanas Bay on the west side of Moresby Island.

Irregular quartz veins with coarse molybdenite, pyrite and chalcopyrite, occur in Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation amphibolite gneiss adjacent to quartz diorite of the Middle Jurassic San Cristoval Plutonic Suite.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *54, p. 220
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 88-1E, pp. 213-216,221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 59-87; 92-1E, pp. 117-123
MIN REV March/April 1988, pp. 19-24
PERS COMM (R.G. Anderson, March 1989)
EMPR PFD 17122
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