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File Created: 13-Aug-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  13-Oct-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name MIR 7, GRABEN AREA, DELTA POOL, TROUT LAKE GRABEN, MIR SPRINGS, HUSSEL, ATLIN EAST Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104N066
Status Showing NTS Map 104N10W
Latitude 059º 38' 19'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 49' 36'' Northing 6613171
Easting 622529
Commodities Uranium, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver Deposit Types B08 : Surficial U
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Mir 7 occurrence is located west of Terrahina Creek, about 49 kilometres east of the community of Atlin.

The area is underlain by alaskitic quartz monzonite of the Late Cretaceous Surprise Lake batholith (Surprise Lake Plutonic Suite). The rocks are commonly interlayered with aplitic and pegmatitic phases. The 'Trout Lake graben' trends northerly across the area.

The graben area contains several radioactive springs and pools with high radon values. A sample of the Delta pool analyzed 82,856 picocuries per litre radon gas. A nearby soil sample assayed 0.11 per cent uranium, 0.62 per cent copper, 0.54 per cent lead, and 15.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 6776).

In 1978, a drillhole in the area intersected a 2-metre radioactive zone with sericite, chlorite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. A 60-centimetre sample assayed 0.009 per cent uranium oxide and 1-metre sample assayed 0.005 per cent uranium, 4.8 grams per tonne silver, and 0.15 per cent copper (Assessment Report 6905). Minor galena and sphalerite were also evident.

In 1977, an exploration program was conducted on parts of the Mir 1-7 claims by Union Oil Company of Canada Ltd. Grid controlled radiometric and geochemical surveys and prospecting work was completed in addition to follow-up geochemistry and reconnaissance scintillometry along the western Trout Lake graben margin. Work on the Mir property was done at intervals, being part of a larger program involving the Surprise Lake batholith and surrounding area. In 1978, three BQ diamond-drill holes totalling 449 metres were drilled on the Mir 3 (104N 113) and Mir 7 claims on behalf of Union Oil Company of Canada Ltd.

In 2006, Aldershot Resources Ltd. conducted a spectral analysis program on their Atlin East property which covers the CX (104N 114), Mir 3 (104N 113), Mir 7 and CX 2 (104N 111) occurrences. The program involved acquisition of satellite spectral data available from NASA, reconfiguring the data into a workable format, geo-referencing to TRIM map bases and extensive and rigorous classification of the data in search of indicators that might lead to the discovery of uranium mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 6468, 6710, *6776, *6905, 7610, 28394
EMPR EXPL 1977-239; 1978-268
EMPR FIELDWORK *1978, p. 106
EMPR GEOLOGY *1977-1981, p. 183
EMPR MAP 52 (with notes)
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC MAP 1082A
GSC MEM 307
GSC OF 517; 551; 864
IAEA TECDOC 322 (Surficial Uranium Deposits, Technical Document, Vienna, 1984), pp. 179-191
JGE *Vol.14 (1981), pp. 49-68
Culbert, R.R. (1979): Uranium Equilibrium - Disequilibrium as Observed in the Natural Environment in British Columbia, Royal Commission Uranium, Accession List #20175, 15 pages with Appendices
*Culbert, R.R. and Leighton, D.G. (1988): Young Uranium; in Unconventional Uranium Deposits, Ore Geology Reviews, Vol.3, pp. 313-330
EMPR PFD 823009, 841219

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