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File Created: 12-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  23-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI 103J2 Au4
Name IXL (L.6517), WRIGHT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J008
Status Showing NTS Map 103J02E
Latitude 054º 01' 14'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 35' 31'' Northing 5986981
Easting 395704
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The IXL showing occurs in the northwest corner of Porcher Island, a few hundred metres southwest of the Surf Point Mine (103J 017).

Several east-southeast striking auriferous pyritic quartz veins are associated with shear zones in the western part of a 2.8 kilo- metre diameter Cretaceous to Tertiary quartz diorite stock of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The stock intrudes Paleozoic to Mesozoic mixed volcanic and older plutonic rocks. The veins vary in width from 5 centimetres to 1 metre and up to 24 metres in length. A representative sample from an ore dump assayed 208 grams per tonne gold and 55 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930, page 72).

Bibliography
EM ASS RPT 25073
EMPR AR *1922-46; 1924-46; 1925-67; 1926-72; 1927-62; 1928-70; *1930-71,72
EMPR BULL No. 1, 1932, pp. 21,29,39
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394
GSC P 66-33
GSC SUM RPT *1922A, pp. 27-29

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