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File Created: 25-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  19-Aug-1999 by Janet M. Riddell (JMR)

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NMI 103H2 Cu1
Name BUTE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H017
Status Showing NTS Map 103H02E
Latitude 053º 09' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 41' 31'' Northing 5890206
Easting 520597
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Tungsten Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The showings are situated opposite Butedale on the south side of Butedale Bay, off Fraser Reach, about 144 kilometres south of Prince Rupert.

This property consisted of the Bute and Bute No. 2 claims, owned in 1930 by A. Land and G. Knutson of Butedale.

In an open cut made in 1930, about 4.5 metres above high-tide mark, a width of about 0.6 metre of rock well mineralized with chalcopyrite was exposed. No tracing back from the shore was done.

Veinlets and patches of chalcopyrite and pyrite with minor molybdenite and scheelite occur in slightly sheared hornblende gneissic bands in granodiorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The bands strike north and dip 75 degrees east and are altered to epidote, garnet, and quartz. Mineralized widths are about 0.6 metre with estimates of up to 7 per cent copper over 0.3 metre.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1930-65,66
EMPR BULL 10, p. 57
EMPR OF 1991-17
GSC EC GEOL Series No. 17, p. 42
GSC MAP 23-1970; 278A; 1385A
GSC P 70-41

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