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File Created: 04-Aug-1994 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name TUYA 2 Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104J056
Status Showing NTS Map 104J10W
Latitude 058º 30' 38'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 53' 11'' Northing 6487097
Easting 390098
Commodities Gold Deposit Types C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Tuya 2 occurrence is located in a tributary creek to Tuya River, about 57 kilometres west of the community of Dease Lake. Visible gold grains were observed in three of four panned concentrate samples taken from the tributary creek.

The showing area is underlain by an Early-Middle Jurassic(?) syenite body. The syenite is white and is altered, in part, to kaolinite. A small upper Mississippian-Permian serpentinite body of the Cache Creek Complex is exposed downstream from the syenite. The serpentinite exhibits strong carbonate alteration with dolomite, talc, ankerite and fuchsite present. Downstream from the serpentinite, interbedded phyllite, greywacke and conglomerate of the Lower Jurassic Inklin Formation (Laberge Group) strike north and dips moderately east. These rocks are intruded by granodiorite dikes.

In 1991, a panned concentrate sample (14966) taken downstream from the carbonate alteration associated with the syenite intrusion yielded visible gold and analysed 3.1 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21850).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 20764, *21850
EMPR PF (104J General File - Claim maps 73M, 73M-3, Dec. 1970)
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC P 68-48
GSC OF 707; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A
GSC SUM RPT 1925, Part A, pp. 33A-99A

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