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File Created: 04-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  23-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name CONDUCTOR ISLAND, GRANT 3 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J046
Status Showing NTS Map 103J07W
Latitude 054º 24' 24'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 48' 16'' Northing 6030269
Easting 382882
Commodities Zinc, Silver Deposit Types G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

"Conductor" Island is underlain by isoclinally folded and faulted package of Mesozoic to Paleozoic graphitic-pyrrhotitic cherts and chert pebble conglomerates, dacite tuffs, rhyolite flows and diorite dykes.

A sample of a chert pebble conglomerate, with a pyrrhotite rich matrix with minor sphalerite, assayed 0.19 per cent zinc and 0.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12777).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12197, *12777, 16036
EMPR EXPL 1983-504; 1984-378; 1987-C362
EMPR OF 1999-2
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394
GSC P 66-33

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