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File Created: 24-Nov-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103I9 Cu29
Name SILVER MITTS, MITTS Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I069
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09E
Latitude 054º 38' 24'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 14' 16'' Northing 6054999
Easting 549193
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Andesites of the Jurassic Hazelton Group are cut by quartz- albite dykes. A silicified zone in red andesite contains quartz veins and fractures mineralized with bornite, chalcopyrite and chalcocite. The zone, which strikes 105 degrees and dips 67 degrees north, is up to 20 metres long and 2 metres wide. A 2 metre sample across the zone assayed 2.9 per cent copper, 48 grams per tonne silver and 0.17 grams per tonne gold (Property File: Lay and Mandy, 1937).

About 500 metres to the northwest, chalcopyrite, pyrite and minor galena occur in narrow seams along faults and joints in a zone 1.2 metres wide. A selected sample assayed trace gold, 28.8 grams per tonne silver and 2.16 per cent copper (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 212).

About 300 metres northeast, a silicified shear zone, along the hangingwall side of a 3.7 metre wide quartz-albite dyke, contains a 35 centimetre wide quartz vein with chalcopyrite and bornite. The dyke strikes 170 degrees and dips 45 degrees east. A 35 centimetre channel sample assayed 0.7 grams per tonne gold, 205 grams per tonne silver and 1.16 per cent copper (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 212).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-150,151; *1930-135,136; 1937-C32
EMPR MAP 69-1; 8
EMPR PF (*Rpt by D. Lay and J.T. Mandy, 1937)
GSC MAP 278A; 1136A; 11-1956; 1385A
GSC MEM *212, pp. 27,28; 329, p. 94
GSC P 36-20, pp. 38,39; 36-17
Dandy, L. (2012-03-01): Geological, Geochemical and Diamond Drilling Report on the Terrace Property
EMPR PFD 18052

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