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File Created: 31-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-Feb-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103G9 Au1
Name ROWE, GOLD BUG, STARBOARD WATCH, STANDARD WATCH Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103G080
Status Showing NTS Map 103G09E
Latitude 053º 43' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 11' 16'' Northing 5954477
Easting 421646
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A 1.2 to 1.8 metre quartz vein, trending 035 degrees and dipping 15 to 30 degrees east, occurs in quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The vein can be traced for 200 metres and contains lenses of pyrite, variable gold, and minor chalcopyrite. A 1.5 metre sample assayed trace gold, 10.3 grams per tonne silver, and 0.5 per cent copper and a grab sample assayed 70 grams per tonne gold and 27.4 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930, page 69).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1922-43,44; 1923-45; 1925-67; 1926-71; 1927-61; 1929-75; *1930-69,70; 1931-35; 1932-49
EMPR BULL 1, 1932, pp. 21,29
EMPR OF 2004-2
GSC MAP 23-1970; 278A
GSC P *70-41, p. 49

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