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File Created: 21-Nov-2012 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-2012 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI
Name MIRKO, GRIZZLY, RDN, MIRKO'S KNOB Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G017
Status Showing NTS Map 104G02E
Latitude 057º 07' 45'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 40' 08'' Northing 6332987
Easting 398983
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Gold Deposit Types I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Mirko occurrence area is underlain by a structurally complex assemblage of various Upper Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks that have been intruded by Juro-Cretaceous diorite and an array of Tertiary-Cretaceous felsites and porphyritic dykes. The sediments consist of conglomerates, sandstones, shale, limestone and minor carbonate breccia. Intermediate to mafic volcanics are comprised of tuffs, lithic tuffs which have been hornfelsed locally.

Mapping in 2008 in the Mirko area identified a strongly carbonate-altered fine to very fine-grained intermediate to mafic volcaniclastic rock with trace to 5 per cenet very fine-grained molybdenite. Drilling at Mirko’s Knob was targeted at molybdenum-gold-copper soil geochemical anomalies and moderate chargeability, in an area of little outcrop. The best Mirko intersection was 13 metres of 0.18 gram per tonne gold, 0.12 per cent copper and 0.04 per cent molybdenum in hole GRZ08-09 (Assessment Report 30723). This mineralization is associated with carbonate breccia and veins, potentially the same fluids responsible for local pyrite lenses associated with the Forrest-Kerr Fault.

See Grizzly (104G 079) for related details and RDN (104G 144) for related work history.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9041, *28729, *30723
EMPR EXPL 1980-470
EMPR GEM 1971-37
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 1418A
PR REL Rimfire Minerals Dec 16, 2005 (www.sedar.com); Rimfire Minerals June 11, 2008; Rimfire Minerals Sept 8, 2008

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