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File Created: 20-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  25-Jul-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name BROWNS CREEK Mining Division Victoria
BCGS Map 092C059
Status Showing NTS Map 092C09W
Latitude 048º 35' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 23' 46'' Northing 5383747
Easting 397068
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell, Pacific Rim
Capsule Geology

The Browns Creek occurrence is located on the eastern side of Browns Creek, at approximately 200 metres elevation.

The area, according to Muller, is underlain by an east trending band of rocks known as the Chert-Argillite-Volcanic Unit, of the Mesozoic Pacific Rim Complex. In this area, the rocks are reported to consist of deformed cherts, argillites, limestone, sandstone, pyroclastics and volcanic flows. In contact with the northern boundary of this band, are metamorphic rocks of the Mesozoic and/or Paleozoic Westcoast Complex.

Locally, granite and diorite with hornblende and serpentinite host sulphide mineralization.

In 2008 and 2009, Le Baron Prospecting completed programs of prospecting and rock sampling on the area as the Browns Creek property. A sample (H0311201) assayed 11.2 grams per tonne silver and 0.557 per cent copper (Assessment Report 31352).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 30511, *31352
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 525-527; 1989, pp. 503-510
GSC MAP 1386A
GSC MEM 13
GSC OF 463
GSC P 72-44; 74-1A; 76-1A; 79-30
EMPR PFD 802130

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