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File Created: 27-Aug-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  14-Aug-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI 103H8 Cu1
Name PAYROLL, HIGH TIDE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H038
Status Showing NTS Map 103H08W
Latitude 053º 19' 57'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 29' 28'' Northing 5909380
Easting 533889
Commodities Copper, Graphite Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl.
Capsule Geology

A 3 metre wide quartz vein, trending 165 degrees and dipping near vertical, mineralized with pyrrhotite, pyrite, and minor chalco- pyrite, occurs in hornblende schist. A 3 metre sample assayed 0.2 per cent copper and trace gold and silver (Minister of Mines, Annual Report 1929).

One hundred fifty metres above the vein, a 3 to 4.5 metre wide graphite horizon lies concordant with the schists.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1920-38; 1921-40; 1922-45; *1929-69
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P *70-41, p. 49

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