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File Created: 23-Sep-1990 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  21-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name LADY B, HART EAST, HART 4 Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092B091
Status Showing NTS Map 092B13W
Latitude 048º 56' 25'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 58' 35'' Northing 5421276
Easting 428500
Commodities Iron Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Lady B iron ore occurrence is located in the headwaters of Chipman Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres north west of the Lady A (MINFILE 092B 029) occurrence.

The area is underlain by metasedimentary rocks of the Mississippian to Pennsylvannian Fourth Lake Formation (Buttle Group) and volcanic rocks of the Upper Devonian McLaughlin Ridge Formation (Sicker Group). These two formations were historically referred to as the Myra Formation and contained the "Sediment-Sill Unit" of the Sicker Group. The Sediment-Sill unit has been tentatively correlated with the Fourth Lake Formation and the "sills" have been mapped separately. The sills are believed to be coeval with the Karmutsen Formation basalts and are informally named Mount Hall gabbro. These rocks have been intruded by granitic rocks of the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Plutonic Suite.

Except for a map indicating the location no other details are available (Buckham, 1953) on the Lady B iron ore occurrence.

In 1983, the area was explored as the Hart 3-5 claims by Cominco Ltd. A grab sample (HER-9) of grabbro hosting disseminated chalcopyrite, pyrite and magnetite assayed 11150 parts per million copper (Assessment Report 11563). In 1989, the area was explored as the SB claim by Vancouver Venture Corporation.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *11563, 18755
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91
EMPR OF 1988-8; 1988-28
EMPR PF (*Report on Exploration for Iron Ore, Ladysmith Devolopment
Ltd., A.F. Buckham, December 1953 (in Lady A file - 092B 029))
GSC MAP 42A; 1386A; 1553A
GSC MEM 13; 36; 96
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 75-1A, p. 23; 79-30
PERS COMM Massey, N.W.D., 1991
EMPR PFD 520353

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