MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 103J 019

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	REDBIRD	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103J007
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103J02E
Latitude	054º 00' 59''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	130º 36' 36''	Northing	5986545
		Easting	394511
Commodities	Gold, Silver	Deposit Types	I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

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

A quartz vein, striking east for about 120 metres, occurs in Tertiary-Cretaceous quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The vein, formed along a shear zone with brecciated inclusions of greenstone, has associated smaller cross veins. Mineralization consists of stringers, veinlets and patches of auriferous pyrite. A representative sample assayed 69 grams per tonne gold and 69 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1934).


Bibliography	EMPR AR *1934-B9; 1935-B25 EMPR ASS RPT 17861 GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A GSC MEM 394 GSC P 66-33