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File Created: 07-Apr-1993 by Moira T. Smith (MTS)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name SKID Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 114P062
Status Showing NTS Map 114P12E
Latitude 059º 38' 22'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 137º 38' 24'' Northing 6614217
Easting 351173
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The Skid showing is a poorly studied volcanogenic massive sulphide occurrence located approximately four kilometres east-northeast of Tats Lake, in the middle volcanic division of the Norian Tats Group. In this locality, a thin, north northeast -trending layer of foliated basalt forms the steep cliff faces at the base of the ridge southeast of the Ice Bridge glacier. Chalcopyrite occurs as stringers and blebs up to fist-size within the foliated basalt. Lateral moraine is plastered on the slopes both above and below the showing. Bedrock is exposed in a series of waterfalls that erode through the moraine. An assay sample collected by British Columbia Geological Survey crews when the showing was discovered in 1992, returned 4.67 per cent copper, and 0.46 per cent gold.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 217-229
EMPR OF 1993-13; 1999-2
GSC OF 2191

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