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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Oct-1988 by John Bradford (JB)

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Name SAM - MAIN GLACIER Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 114P066
Status Showing NTS Map 114P10W
Latitude 059º 41' 59'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 136º 53' 07'' Northing 6619478
Easting 393901
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The Sam-Main Glacier area is underlain by Paleozoic(?) meta- sediments which are intruded by quartz feldspar porphyry and mafic dykes. A train of mineralized bounders at the base of the "Main Glacier", on its west side, is 10 to 20 metres wide and at least 200 metres long. The boulders include massive garnet-diopside-actinolite skarn which contains up to 5 per cent copper and 5 per cent zinc, as chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and crudely banded, fine-grained massive sulphides in a quartz-actinolite(?) gangue. Samples assayed up to 5.8 per cent copper, 12.4 per cent lead, 14.3 per cent zinc, 150.86 grams per tonne silver, and 0.07 grams per tonne gold. The only in-situ mineralization occurs just above the northeast side of the glacier, and consists of quartz-rich skarn bands with minor copper mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *10887, *11597, 14639, 15680
EMPR EXPL 1982-414; 1983-563; 1986-C472; 1987-C405
GSC OF 926, 2191
Pers. Comm.: (*J.J. McDougall)

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