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File Created: 24-Dec-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  29-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I9 Cu36
Name BIG BOY, ANNETTE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I059
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09W
Latitude 054º 34' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 19' 06'' Northing 6047682
Easting 544065
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Andesitic rock of the Jurassic Hazelton Group is intruded by aplite. A shear zone in the andesite is mineralized with pyrite and minor chalcopyrite. A sample assayed trace gold, 137.1 grams per tonne silver, and 7 per cent copper (Minister of Mines, Annual Report 1932). The aplite contains seams of solid pyrite several centimetres thick.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1932-84
EMPR MAP 8
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
GSC P 36-20, p. 39

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