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File Created: 10-Jun-1993 by Moira T. Smith (MTS)
Last Edit:  10-Jun-1993 by Moira T. Smith (MTS)

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Name BLUE ZONE Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 114P084
Status Showing NTS Map 114P14W
Latitude 059º 50' 27'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 137º 21' 40'' Northing 6636043
Easting 367689
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The Blue Zone showing lies along one strand of the Debris Fault system, and is so named for the distinctive blue-green colour of the fault breccias in this area, where the fault zone is up to one half a kilometre wide. The fault bounds the east size of a graben filled with early Tertiary sedimentary rocks. The east side fo the fault is underlain by massive limestone of probable Ordovician age. The fault zone contains intensely sheared and mylonitized limestone and other lithologies. Alteration was probably contemporaneous with faulting (early Tertiary). Alteration minerals include hematite, malachite, bornite?, silica, and chlorite. The hemititic zone overlies the zone of blue-green alteration one sample from this hematitic zone returned a gold value of 8.99 grams per tonne. The extent of this zone of anomalous gold values is not knonwn, although the zone of hematitic alteration continues to the north for at least four kilometres.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, p. 220
EMPR OF 1993-13
EMPR mapping (unpublished)
GSC OF 2191

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