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File Created: 06-Dec-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  09-Jan-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name KIT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I057
Status Showing NTS Map 103I10W
Latitude 054º 33' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 42' 18'' Northing 6046334
Easting 519075
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Kit occurrence is located on the lower, northwestern, slope of Kitsumkalum Mountain, east of Erlandsen Creek.

The area is underlain by sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Jurassic Hazelton Group, which have been intruded by quartz monzonite and granodiorite and later feldspar quartz porphyry of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The Hazelton rocks are dominantly meta-siltstone and porphyritic andesite with minor meta-greywacke argillite, dacite and basaltic andesite. These rocks have been locally hornfelsed. Distribution of the hornfels generally coincides with zones of molybdenite mineralization.

Locally, minor chalcopyrite, with subordinate molybdenite, occurs in poorly developed quartz vein and fracture systems, occurring in both volcanic and sedimentary host rocks.

In 1967, the area was explored as a part of the Kit claims by Zymont Metals Limited. A sample of disseminated pyrite-chalcopyrite mineralized hornfelsed argillite returned trace silver and 0.05 per cent copper (Property File: Sharp, W.M. (1967-06-26): Summary report - Examination of Kit group).

Bibliography
EMPR PF (Bates, R.H. (1967-01-05): Claim sketch map of Molybdenum Creek & Kit groups; *Sharp, W.M. (1967-06-26): Summary report - Examination of Kit group)

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