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File Created: 14-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)
Last Edit:  18-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI
Name J, J 1-2 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I017
Status Showing NTS Map 103I02E
Latitude 054º 09' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 39' 54'' Northing 6002086
Easting 521871
Commodities Copper, Gold, Iron Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
K01 : Cu skarn
K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by andesitic tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. Bedding attitudes vary between northwest to north and generally dip to the west. Granodiorite and associated dykes of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex intrude the volcanics.

Mineralization is exposed along a CNR railway cut on the south side of the Wedeene River. Stratiform pyrite and pyrite-chalcopyrite and/or malachite mineralization occurs within the bedded tuffs. The maximum exposed width of chalcopyrite and pyrite mineralization is about 0.5 metres. Seven samples were collected from the banded sulphide mineralization. Sample W-1 assayed 0.265 grams per tonne gold, 13.3 grams per tonne silver, 1.978 per cent copper and 11.069 per cent iron (Assessment Report 16860).

Bands of pyrite ranging up to a few centimetres in thickness are common in the tuffs exposed along the river and to the east of the copper-bearing outcrop. A grab sample from one of these pyritic bands (sample no. 501) assayed 0.56 grams per tonne gold and 0.13 per cent copper (Assessment Report 16860).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *16860
EMPR EXPL 1988-C200
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1999-2
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329

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