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File Created: 12-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  23-Aug-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name KEECHA CREEK, KEECH, ZINC Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H031
Status Showing NTS Map 103H05W
Latitude 053º 18' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 58' 26'' Northing 5906364
Easting 435101
Commodities Zinc, Gold, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A northwest trending Paleozoic metasedimentary belt consisting of micaceous quartzite, crystalline limestone and calc-silicate altered siltstone is bounded by diorite and quartz monzonite of the Coast Plutonic Complex.

Drilling intersected chalcopyrite, sphalerite, pyrite, and pyrrhotite with accompanying graphitic rock. Mineralization is associated with shearing in sericite-chlorite alteration zones hosted by the "Kim" biotite quartz monzonite. Stronger mineralization is associated with auriferous veins or veinlets such as those seen on Bushy Creek (103H 042). Assays ranged 2-4 per cent zinc and minor gold and silver (Assessment Report 656).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1963-21
EMPR ASS RPT *656, 657, *15301, 16707, *17180
EMPR EXPL 1986-C424; 1987-A15
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41
Falconbridge File
EMPR PFD 17913

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