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File Created: 16-Nov-1988 by John Bradford (JB)
Last Edit:  23-Oct-2014 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name CASSIAR PIT Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104P031
Status Showing NTS Map 104P05W
Latitude 059º 19' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 49' 08'' Northing 6576683
Easting 453400
Commodities Copper, Zinc Deposit Types G05 : Cyprus massive sulphide Cu (Zn)
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The Cassiar Pit occurrence is exposed in the east wall of the Cassiar asbestos mine open pit (104P 005), above the serpentinite sliver hosting the asbestos orebody.

The showing consists of a small (less than 1 metre) lens of concordant, laminated, massive chalcopyrite-pyrite-sphalerite-quartz in intercalated green tuff and argillite of the Upper Paleozoic Sylvester Allochthon. This occurrence is classified as volcanogenic, syngenetic.

Siliceous horizons of possible exhalative origin occur near the tuff-argillite contact along strike to the north, while a pyritic quartz stockwork occurs to the east.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *1988, pp. 323-337
EMPR MP MAP 1992-13
EMPR BULL 83
EMPR OF 1989-9; 1996-11
GSC MEM 319
GSC MAP 1110A
GSC OF 2779

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