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File Created: 08-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  22-Apr-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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Name LUCKY FORTUNE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I047
Status Showing NTS Map 103I07E
Latitude 054º 24' 24'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 37' 56'' Northing 6028831
Easting 523872
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Iron Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
K07 : Mo skarn
K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Lucky Fortune magnetite skarn occurrence is situated west of Lakelse Lake, approximately 12.5 kilometres south of Terrace, B.C.

Paleozoic sediments consisting of limestone, quartzite, and shale are intruded by diorite and later granodiorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The sediments are altered to skarn composed of epidote and garnet with disseminated and patchy chalcopyrite, molybdenite and magnetite.

The skarn deposit is part of a package being re-evaluated by Durango Resources Inc. along with the HAL skarn occurrence (103I 192) and the MAYNER'S FORTUNE limestone deposits (102I 113) (Durango Resources Inc. PR June 3, July 24 2019). Mapping conducted in the LUCKY FORTUNE area showed that porphyritic diorite intrusions intrude roughly parallel to the limestone bedding, with a strike of 355-360°. Several gabbroic intrusions were identified cross-cutting the limestone unit in several places. These dykes were observed to be 5 to 15 metres in thickness, inferred to be up to 25-30 metres in some locations.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3585, *36945, 38369
EMPR GEM 1971-113; 1972-499
EMPR MAP 8
GSC MAP 11-1956; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
EMPR PFD 860089

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