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File Created: 27-May-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  18-Nov-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name GROOVIN, TCS Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I042
Status Showing NTS Map 104I05E
Latitude 058º 25' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 42' 33'' Northing 6476846
Easting 458581
Commodities Copper, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Groovin occurrence is located along Squaw Creek about 15 kilometres east of Dease Lake. Tractor tote roads from the highway pass two kilometres north and five kilometres south of the property.

The Groovin showing is underlain by a series of intercalated felsic to intermediate volcanics and clastic sediments, which are believed to be part of the Kutcho Formation of the Upper Permian to Lower Triassic Cache Creek Complex. The felsic volcanics consist of massive buff and white cherty rhyolite. Highly schistose chlorite schists represent andesitic volcanics, locally pyritic. The sediments include greywacke, argillite, and conglomerates. The conglomerates are highly schistose with rounded rhyolite, basalt, and granitic fragments and some shaley clasts.

Several rock samples were taken from an outcrop of highly foliated chlorite-leucoxene(?)- carbonate(?) schist yielding up to 2.16 per cent copper (Assessment Report 25093, sample 358086) with low values for other base and precious metals. This sample contained up to 6 per cent chalcopyrite as blebs and stringers; the stringers have been stretched out and disaggregated along foliation, indicating their emplacement prior to deformation. This outcrop could represent footwall stringer zone alteration and mineralization in a volcanogenic massive sulphide system.

In 2018, a grab sample (W371653) from a narrow (30 centimetres) pyritic shear zone near and parallel to the southern contact of the northern rhyolite body assayed 0.16 per cent copper, 8.2 grams per tonne silver, and 0.09 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 38012).

In 2017, geologic and geochemical studies of the TCS property were undertaken by Attunga Holdings Inc. and Running Dog Resources Ltd. The 2017 exploration program focused on a historic copper-zinc soil geochemical anomaly and a reported copper-zinc showing in Squaw Creek, with the collection of 10 rock samples, 11 silt samples, and 7 soil samples. In 2018, the TCS property was under option by Kutcho Copper Corp. from Running Dog Resources Ltd. and Attunga Holdings Inc. The 2018 exploration program followed up on the 2017 work that identified the claims as having potential to host volcanogenic massive sulphide mineralization similar to the Kutcho (104I 060) deposit 83 kilometres to the east-southeast. A total of 14 rock samples and 197 soil samples were taken.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *25093, 37302, *38012
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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