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File Created: 14-Nov-1995 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  15-May-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name LU Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I037
Status Showing NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 21' 05'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 42' 22'' Northing 6467870
Easting 517201
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Lu occurrence is located approximately 80 kilometres east of Dease Lake.

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

A 1985 prospecting program by Getty Canadian Metals is the only documented work on this ground. The Lu property is reported to be underlain mainly by phyllite and mafic to intermediate volcanic rocks of the Mississippian to Triassic Kedahda Formation or upper Mississippian to Permian Nakina Formation, both of the Cache Creek Complex.

Quartz veins are common in the volcanic rocks pinching and swelling up to 2 metres in thickness. Most contain trace amounts of chlorite, epidote, pyrite, chalcopyrite, malachite and arsenopyrite. A 10 centimetre wide quartz vein containing pyrite assayed 0.77 gram per tonne gold; in the same area, several samples of silicified greenstone assayed 0.03 to 0.14 per cent copper (Assessment Report 14136).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14136
EMPR EXPL 1985-C390
EMPR OF 1989-18; 1996-11
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC OF 56; 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27

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