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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 3, RADON CIRQUE, TROUT LAKE GRABEN, MIR SPRINGS, HUSSEL, ATLIN EAST Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104N066
Status Showing NTS Map 104N10W
Latitude 059º 38' 59'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 50' 06'' Northing 6614392
Easting 622019
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper, Uranium, Thorium Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
B08 : Surficial U
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Mir 3 occurrence is located just 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. To the east, the "Trout Lake graben", a northerly trending feature, brings roof rocks to the valley bottom.

A test pit on the Radon Cirque area uncovered galena, sphalerite, and minor chalcopyrite in veins within alaskite. Also associated with the sulphides are magnetite, hematite, pyrargyrite, and secondary manganese and uranium. In 1977, a grab sample assayed 12.3 per cent lead, 3.1 per cent zinc, 531.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.055 per cent uranium (Assessment Report 6776). Subsequent drilling intersected minor autunite and fluorite minerals, with the best assay being 0.016 per cent uranium over 1.2 metres (Assessment Report 6905).

Several springs in the area are high in radon. One sample measured 64,189 picocuries per litre radon (Assessment Report 6776). Soil samples in the area assayed up to 0.12 per cent uranium and 0.07 per cent thorium. Aquatic moss samples assayed up to 0.17 per cent uranium and 0.08 per cent thorium (Journal of Geochemical Exploration, 1981).

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 and Mir 7 (104N 112) 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, Mir 7 (104N 112) 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 6362, 6710, *6776, *6905, 7610, 28394
EMPR EXPL 1977-239; 1978-268
EMPR FIELDWORK *1978, p. 106
EMPR GEOL 1977-1981, p. 183
EMPR MAP 52 (with notes)
EMPR PFD 823009, 841219
GSC MAP 1082A
GSC MEM 307
GSC OF 517
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 Mining, 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

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