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File Created: 12-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  22-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name MASCOT, DC Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103J008
Status Showing NTS Map 103J02E
Latitude 054º 01' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 34' 11'' Northing 5987412
Easting 397170
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Mascot showing occurs near the northwest corner of Porcher Island about 1.5 kilometres east of the Surf Point Mine (103J 017).

A quartz vein, striking 050 degrees and dipping 80 degrees north, occurs in Cretaceous to Tertiary quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex near its contact with Paleozoic to Mesozoic mixed volcanic and plutonic rock. The vein is sheared and is up to 1 metre wide and 20 metres long. Mineralization consists of stringers of pyrite. A selected sample assayed 27 grams per tonne gold and 41 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1933, page 42).

Bibliography
EM ASS RPT 25073
EMPR AR *1933-42; 1934-B9
GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A
GSC MEM 394
GSC P 66-33

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