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File Created: 18-Feb-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  23-Jul-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name BONANZA, SURF INLET Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H006
Status Showing NTS Map 103H02W
Latitude 053º 04' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 52' 06'' Northing 5879973
Easting 508822
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Tellurium Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

An extensive, complex shear system occurs in intrusive and gneissic volcanics and metasediments of the Coast Plutonic Complex. Gold associated with pyrite occurs in quartz-ankerite-sericite- sulphide veins within the shear zone.

The Bonanza showing is located in the southern part of the north-south trending shear system, about 2700 metres south of the Surf Inlet Mine (103H 027). Two parallel north-northwest trending quartz veins occur along the contact between diorite and quartz- feldspar-biotite-hornblende gneiss. The contact zone is altered with chlorite, sericite, ankerite and quartz. A 1.2 metre sample across a quartz vein assayed 12.8 grams per tonne gold, 86.0 grams per tonne silver, 1.72 per cent copper and 0.0033 grams per tonne tellurium (Assessment Report 15377).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-788; 1901-993; 1902-53; 1908-249
EMPR ASS RPT 10071, 15369, *15377
EMPR EXPL 1986-C423
EMPR PF (Surf Inlet Mines Ltd., Prospectus, Aug.27, 1987 in 103H 027)
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41
V STOCKWATCH Nov.30, 1987

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