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File Created: 30-May-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  11-Jul-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P13 Ag3
Name RAF COPPER, RAF Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 59' 31'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 51' 58'' Northing 6205522
Easting 445972
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Raf Copper showing is located on the north fork of Glacier Creek, 9.5 kilometres northeast of Stewart. The region is underlain by north striking, west dipping argillite of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). The argillite is frequently cut by narrow felsic and augite porphyritic dikes.

The showing consists of a zone of massive chalcopyrite pods and various shear zones. The pods parallel the bedding of the enclosing argillite and the shear zones strike northwest and dip east. The shear zones contain quartz-calcite veinlets with disseminated chalcopyrite. A 3.7 metre chip sample assayed trace gold, 48 grams per tonne silver and 3.77 per cent copper (Assessment Report 343, Map 1).

In 2006, Teuton Resources Corp. completed 228.1 line-kilometres of a helicopter-borne AeroTEM II electromagentic and magnetic survey on their Silver Bell property which covers the showing area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1965-51
EMPR ASS RPT *343, 344, 28406
EMPR BULL 58, p. 151; 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-163; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 217,218; 1986, pp. 81-102; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMR MP CORPFILE (Cassiar Consolidated Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996

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