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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-May-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I12 Cu1
Name MAC, EAGLE Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I052
Status Showing NTS Map 104I12E
Latitude 058º 33' 58'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 41' 09'' Northing 6491944
Easting 460103
Commodities Copper, Tungsten Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Mac showing is located about 25 kilometres northeast of Dease Lake.

Massive sulphide occurs between the contacts of granodiorite/quartz monzonite to the north, steeply dipping limestone/marble to the east and anorthosite to the west(?) and south. The intrusive rock is probably related to the Late Cretaceous Little Eagle pluton. The limestone/marble, metaquartzite and gneiss mapped at the Mac showing are probably part of the Mississippian to Triassic Kedahda Formation of the Cache Creek Complex (Assessment Report 1105, Figure 1; Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2779).

The Mac showing is about 9 metres in diameter and consists of a small dome composed mainly of pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, pyrite and minor quartz and barite. The contact zone is characterized by a talcose mineral and malachite staining. The surface of the showing is highly gossanized. Several years later when the Eagle claims covered some of the same ground, scheelite was added to the list of minerals observed (Exploration in British Columbia 1976, page 193).

A sample across 9.8 metres ranged from 0.03 to 1.33 per cent copper (averaging 0.73 per cent), 0.02 to 0.04 per cent nickel (averaging 0.03 per cent) and 13.6 to 50.2 iron (averaging 40.2 per cent) (Assessment Report 1105).

An unknown amount of mapping and sampling on the Mac claims was done in 1967 by K. Willison. This was followed by electromagnetic and soil surveys in 1969 by Jupiter Explorations Ltd. Noranda held some of the same ground in 1976 as the Eagle claim, conducting geological, magnetic and soil surveys.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1967-28; 1968-38
EMPR GEM 1969-43; 1976-E193
EMPR ASS RPT *1105, 2546
EMPR OF 1996-11
EMPR EXPL 1976-193
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27

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