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File Created: 09-Apr-1986 by John Bradford (JB)
Last Edit:  31-Oct-1988 by John Bradford (JB)

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Name MOCKING BIRD (L.284), HARTFORD (L.801) Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 114P058
Status Showing NTS Map 114P10E
Latitude 059º 34' 24'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 136º 31' 27'' Northing 6604883
Easting 413898
Commodities Silver, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The Mocking Bird and Hartford showing is underlain by Devonian to Upper Triassic metasediments intruded by Oligocene granite of the Tkope River Intrusions. Test pits, north and east-northeast of a pair of small lakes at the head of an east-flowing tributary of Schulz Creek, expose serpentine skarn in marble and argillite with bornite, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, and pyrite. Three samples from different pits assayed from 6.86 to 9.6 grams per tonne silver, and 0.09 to 0.20 per cent copper.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2357
EMPR AR 1907-47; 1908-249; 1910-246
GSC OF 926, 2191
EMPR PFD 820518

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