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File Created: 30-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-Feb-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103G16 Fe1
Name ROYAL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103G090
Status Showing NTS Map 103G16E
Latitude 053º 51' 04'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 03' 56'' Northing 5967483
Easting 429906
Commodities Iron, Magnetite Deposit Types K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

A 100 metre long magnetite ore zone, striking northwest and dipping 80 degrees east, lies concordant with bedding and schistosity of the Permian (?) or older schists. Coast Plutonic Complex rocks lie to the west.

The magnetite occurs as small discontinuous massive bands and irregular lenses up to 4.5 metres wide. A one metre wide sample assayed 68 per cent iron (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1914-150; 1930-69
GSC EC GEOL *Series No. 3, Vol. 1, pp. 24-26
GSC MAP 23-1970; 278A
GSC P 70-41
EMPR PFD 17873

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