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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-May-2019 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 104I4 Cu7
Name BCR, SS Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I001
Status Showing NTS Map 104I04W
Latitude 058º 05' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 49' 59'' Northing 6439188
Easting 450885
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Molybdenum Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The BCR occurrence is located about 40 kilometres southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The showing occurs near the contact of the Middle Jurassic Three Sisters Plutonic Suite with Middle Triassic volcanic rocks of the Stuhini Group. Chalcopyrite with minor sphalerite, galena, and molybdenite are developed in north trending sets of fractures. Locally, the fractures have argillic and quartz-sericite alteration envelopes. Drill logs indicate the presence of pyrite, magnetite and chalcopyrite in quartz monzonite.

Stikine Minerals Corp. owned the BCR property in 1974 and Quintana Mineral Corp. was the operator. A total of 437 metres were drilled in 15 percussion-drill holes along the British Columbia railway grade and drill roads. This location is marked ‘BCR’ on Figure 3a (Fieldwork 2011, page 102).

Samples from drill core yielded low copper (less than 0.0112 per cent) and zinc (less than 0.0081 per cent) (Assessment Report 5298). The few outcrops along the British Columbia railroad grade within 1 to 2.5 kilometres north and 1 kilometre south of the drilled area are intensely iron oxide stained and contain several percent disseminated and fracture-hosted pyrite (this study; marked on Figure 3a, Fieldwork 2011, page 102). Salmon pink K-feldspar alteration developed along epidote-filled fractures is common within the plutonic rocks of the Gnat Pass area, and locally increases in intensity south of the BCR showing.

The authors of Fieldwork 2011 reported that despite discouraging drill results, the large alteration footprint of this showing warranted additional investigation.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5298
EMPR GEM 1974-348
EMPR FIELDWORK 2011, *p. 99–120
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27

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