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MINFILE No  103I 101
File Created: 30-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  12-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I8 Au4
Name COIN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I048
Status Showing NTS Map 103I08W
Latitude 054º 27' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 27' 56'' Northing 6034619
Easting 534647
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A quartz vein averaging 36 centimetres wide occurs in grano- diorite of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. The vein strikes 100 degrees for 24 metres, dips 30 degrees northeast, and is mineralized with pyrite, galena and sphalerite. A 51 centimetre sample assayed 0.7 grams per tonne gold and 9.3 grams per tonne silver (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 205).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13140, 14560
EMPR MAP 69-1; 8
GSC MAP 1136A; 278A; 11-1956; 1385A
GSC MEM *205, p. 32; 329, p. 78
GSC P 36-17, p. 55
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