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File Created: 30-Oct-1990 by Derek A. Brown (DAB)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name CAPTAIN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G053
Status Showing NTS Map 104G12E
Latitude 057º 35' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 33' 17'' Northing 6386095
Easting 347298
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Lower Jurassic(?) Hazelton Group andesite volcanic flows and tuff host narrow (less than one centimetre), discontinuous, malachite stained quartz veins with disseminated pyrite plus or minus chalco- pyrite. The volcanic rocks are moderately east-dipping and uncon- formably overlain by flat-lying Upper Cretaceous-Paleocene(?) Sustut Group polymictic conglomerate. Host rocks display weak propylitic alteration with patches of epidote in a dark green chlorite-altered groundmass. A rusty weathering zone (over 50 metres by 50 metres) of highly fractured andesite with 1-290 disseminated pyrite contains rare, two to three centimetre wide quartz veins with lenses of coarse pyrite and patches of finer, dark grey pyrite.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1990, p. 141
EMPR OF 1990-1 (Samples DBR89-273, 277-1, 277-2)
EMPR PFD 521408, 521411

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