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MINFILE No  082GNW041
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name BLUE DRAGON (L.8956), KIM Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G061
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12W
Latitude 049º 38' 27'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 53' 48'' Northing 5499283
Easting 579659
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Blue Dragon showing, a vein system is hosted in a Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions sill. The system consists of a vertical shear zone with quartz-calcite filling fractures and hosting pyrite and chalcopyrite. The zone strikes 060 degrees and is a maximum 1.4 metres in width.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1909-275
EMPR ASS RPT 1715, 2071, 10629
EMPR EXPL 1975-42; 1976-45; 1977-59
EMPR GEM 1969-346; 1970-475; 1972-68
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM *76, p. 146
EMPR PFD 810671
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