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File Created: 15-Jun-1988 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  04-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name UNUK (ZONE 3), GINGRAS CREEK, ZONE 3 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B059
Status Showing NTS Map 104B09W
Latitude 056º 31' 27'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 23' 53'' Northing 6265300
Easting 414000
Commodities Asbestos, Copper Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Gingras Creek (Zone 3) showings are located at the headwaters of Gingras Creek, a southeast flowing tributary of Sulphurets Creek.

The area is underlain by green, red and purple volcanic breccia, conglomerate, sandstone and siltstone of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group). A large stock of Lower Jurassic and younger diorite has intruded the Hazelton Group rock and its eastern contact is found within a kilometre to the west of the occurrence (Grove, Bulletin 63).

Two showings of asbestos, one with magnetite and some copper mineralization, occur within a kilometre of each other (Property File: Geology Map-Newmont Expl. of Canada Ltd.). Showings of magnetite are reported west and northeast of these asbestos showing. The nature of how the mineralization occurs and the host rock in which it occurs was not reported.

A mineralized area is located near the headwaters of Gringas Creek on the Unuk 24 claim (Assessment Report 17087). Within this zone, tuffs and andesites of the Unuk River Formation are silicified, seriticized, and contain 5-10 per cent finely disseminated pyrite. The area is coincident with a magnetic low and a VLF conductor.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 15961, *17087, 19675, 20390, 20933, 21749, 22113, 23910, 40265
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 199-209; 1988, pp. 241-250
EMPR OF 1988-4; 1989-10; 1995-25
EMPR PF (*Geology Map - 1:31,250 Scale - Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd., 1960's)
GSC MAP 9-1957; 1418A
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
Simpson, T.M., (1983): The Geology and Hydrothermal Alteration of the Sulphurets Deposits, Northwest British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Idaho
Lindsay, D., Prowse, N.D. (2021-06-08): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Sib-Corey-North Mitchell Property

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