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File Created: 12-Dec-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  12-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I9 Cu21
Name PAYSTREAK, GOLD STAR, TRUE BLUE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I068
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09W
Latitude 054º 37' 19'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 28' 46'' Northing 6052848
Easting 533611
Commodities Copper, Silver, Lead, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Meta-rhyolite of probable Permian age is cut by a 1.5 metre wide basic dyke. A 1 metre east trending shear zone occurs on the hangingwall side of the dyke. The shear contains a 15 to 90 centi- metre quartz vein with disseminated chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite and magnetite. A 90 centimetre sample assayed trace gold, 55 grams per tonne silver, and 1.5 per cent copper and a selected sample assayed 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 233 grams per tonne silver, 7.1 per cent copper and 14 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1919).

A nearby showing called "Big Lead" contained chalcopyrite, minor bornite and galena in a basic dyke and metavolcanics.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1919-98,99; 1929-151
EMPR GEM *1970-195-197
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329

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