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File Created: 15-Nov-1995 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  19-May-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name WW3 Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I028
Status Showing NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 17' 19'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 34' 07'' Northing 6460924
Easting 525293
Commodities Copper Deposit Types E04 : Sediment-hosted Cu
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The WW3 occurrence is located about 90 kilometres east-southeast of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by upper Mississippian to Permian Cache Creek Complex rocks including volcanic, metavolcanics (greenstone), metasediments, gabbro and tectonically emplaced ultramafic rocks. The upper Mississippian to Permian Cache Creek Complex ultramafic rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are generally serpentinized.

At the WW3 showing, siliceous sericite-rich phyllites of the Mississippian to Triassic Kedahda Formation (Cache Creek Complex) contain 3 to 10 per cent disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite and trace amounts of chalcopyrite.

On the PW claims in 1985, Getty Canadian Metals conducted a geological survey and took 234 rock and 134 soil samples. No other work is documented. See related occurrences PW3 (104I 112) and PW1 (104I 113) located 2.5 kilometres south.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14137
EMPR EXPL 1985-C391
EMPR OF 1989-18; 1996-11
GSC OF 56; 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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