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File Created: 05-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  22-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name MINERAL REEF, POOR BOY, GRANT 1 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J047
Status Showing NTS Map 103J07W
Latitude 054º 27' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 45' 41'' Northing 6036842
Easting 385842
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by several interfingered and lensoid bodies of pyroxene porphyry tuff and rhyolite of an unnamed Mesozoic to Paleozoic formation. Sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite mineral- ization occur in carbonate and conformable quartz veins within shears, oriented 060 degrees and dipping 75 degrees southeast. Northwest of the intense shear zone, the shears are oriented 020 degrees.

A sample of sheared pyroxene porphyry with conformable carbonate lenses assayed 5.8 per cent zinc, 0.18 per cent lead and 0.115 per cent copper. A sample of sheared rhyolite, 80 metres to the north- east, assayed 2.53 per cent zinc, 1.16 per cent lead and 0.093 per cent copper (Assessment Report 12777).

A shaft is reported at this showing (Assessment Report 22764).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12197, *12777, 16036, 22764
EMPR EXPL 1983-504; 1984-378; 1987-C362
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394
GSC P 66-33
EMPR PFD 825781

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