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File Created: 17-Sep-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  24-Feb-2014 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name LISA 3, SIMMA MOUNTAIN, INHINI Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B054
Status Showing NTS Map 104B11W
Latitude 056º 35' 31'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 21' 44'' Northing 6274450
Easting 354950
Commodities Gold, Copper, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The area of the Lisa 3 showing is underlain by marine sedimentary and volcanic rock of the Devonian to Permian Stikine Assemblage. This stratigraphy is intruded to the east by the Late Triassic Seraphim Mountain Pluton consisting of quartz monzonitic rock.

In 1989, Corona Corporation prospected the Lisa 3, 4, 6 and 7 claims (of the Inhini property) and collected 13 heavy mineral, 14 silt and 47 rock samples (Assessment Report 19970). In 1990, Link Resources Inc. carried out a 700-kilometre airborne magnetic and EM survey over the entire Inhini Property (Assessment Report 20972).

A small gold showing was located on a small shoulder on the west side of Simma Mountain. An initial grab float sample (82221) by Corona Corp in 1989 of a narrow quartz vein assayed 19.82 grams per tonne gold and prompted a more detailed examination of the area.

The area consists of a narrow (about 100 metres wide) fault bound wedge of andesitic lapilli tuff/tuff breccia in fault contact with limestone. The composition of the tuff/breccia unit becomes more siliceous to the west which appears to have minor control on quartz veins as these veinlets (1 to 10 centimetre wide) are common (2 or 3 per metre) in a 30 to 50 metre square area of the andesitic tuff-breccia unit but do not occur in the more siliceous unit. Veinlets contain chalcopyrite, sphalerite, malachite and trace galena plus/minus tetrahedrite. Local massive chalcopyrite and disseminated chalcopyrite can be located in the tuff adjacent to the veins and along fractures. Twelve grab samples taken from these veins ranged up to 2.21 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 19970).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *19970, 20972
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR GM 1997-03
EMPR OF 1989-10; 1990-16; 1994-1; 1992-1; 1992-3; 1998-10
GSC MAP 311A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 246, p. 25,74
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
EMPR PFD 904031, 904340, 905165

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