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File Created: 03-Apr-2013 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  17-Jul-2020 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name GRAN 15 Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G074
Status Showing NTS Map 104G11W
Latitude 057º 43' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 16' 07'' Northing 6401100
Easting 364925
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Gran 15 area is underlain by the contact of a Middle to Late Triassic quartz dioritic pluton and sedimentary rock of the Devonian to Permian Stikine Assemblage.

The main rock type encountered in 1989 was a medium-grained granodiorite, locally migmatitic, with abundant bull white quartz veins up to 30 centimetres in width. These quartz veins were typically barren but where mineralized carried up to 2 per cent blebby chalcopyrite and 5 per cent disseminated pyrite, with 2 to 3 per cent patchy epidote. The Gran 15 showing is one such quartz vein where the second highest assay of 1989 on the Gran 15 claim was obtained. The sample was taken from a white quartz vein in granodiorite that yielded 0.105 per cent copper, 0.3 gram per tonne silver and 3 parts per billion gold (Sample 31448, Figure 4.1, Assessment Report 19059). The vein was reported to contain 3 to 4 per cent malachite and a trace of chalcopyrite.

In 1989, the Gran 15 property consisted of one claim totalling 20 units and was owned by Homestake Mineral Development Company and Equity Silver Mines Ltd. Work on the property involved prospecting and the collection of 11 rock samples.

See Gran 15 South (104G 241) for related information and a more detailed work history of the Gran 15 property area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 4717, *19059, 20293, 20702
EMPR BULL 95
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 309A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246, pp. 57,74
GSC P 71-44

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