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File Created: 21-May-2019 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  23-Sep-2019 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name THREE SISTERS NORTH Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I004
Status Showing NTS Map 104I03W
Latitude 058º 05' 18'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 20' 00'' Northing 6438583
Easting 480344
Commodities Copper, Tungsten Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The “Three Sisters North” occurrence is hosted within Middle Jurassic (and/or Early Cretaceous?) Three Sisters Plutonic Suite rock consisting of the central felsic phase. It consists of massive, equigranular (2 to 3 millimetres) biotite and lesser hornblende-biotite quartz monzonite and quartz monzodiorite, locally with potassium-feldspar phenocrysts.

The rocks are intensely veined (roughly 5 per cent by volume) in a several-metre wide interval. The interval hosts one 10-centimetre-wide east-southeast oriented, steeply north dipping, epidote plus actinolite, plus sulphide vein. The assay results for this vein are 0.36 per cent copper, greater than 0.02 per cent tungsten and slightly elevated uranium (11BVA30-216 in Table 2, Fieldwork 2011).

The Three Sisters North showing was found during a 2011 fieldwork program completed by the BC Geological Survey Branch. One rock sample was analyzed, and the area was mapped.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 2011, *p. 99–120
EMPR GF 2012-08
EMPR OF 2012-06
GSC MEM 194, pp. 7,16
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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