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File Created: 18-Apr-1990 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  27-May-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name DDAM Mining Division Nanaimo
BCGS Map 092F017
Status Showing NTS Map 092F02E
Latitude 049º 11' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 37' 25'' Northing 5449476
Easting 381692
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Ddam occurrence is located west of Cop Creek, approximately 1.3 kilometres north west of Henry Lake.

The area is underlain by Devonian Sicker Group rocks, predominantly mixed lapilli tuffs and agglomerates of the Nitinat Formation. Included within the tuffs is a siliceous, banded, grey-black aphanitic tuff layer. There are silicified, bleached, altered pyritic zones at stratigraphic contacts.

Mineralization consisting of mainly pyrite with trace amounts of chalcopyrite occur in shear zones with occasional milky grey-white quartz veins ranging from 1 centimetre stockwork veinlets to 10 centimetre wide veins. A barren quartz-epidote-silica phase postdates the milky quartz veins.

In 1986, P. Jones staked the Ddam claims and completed a program of prospecting and geochemical sampling. In 1988, Lacana Ex. completed a program of geological mapping, rock and soil sampling and a ground electromagnetic survey. In 1990, a geophysical program of ground magnetic and electromagnetic surveys was completed. In 1992, the area was explored as the Rook claims. In 2006, the area immediately south, was prospected by Bitterroot Resources Ltd. as the Gap claim.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 14768, *17562, 20105, 22378, 28254
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 81-91; 1988, pp. 61-74
EMPR OF 1989-6
GSC MAP 17-1968; 49-1963; 1386A
GSC OF 463; 1272
GSC P 68-50
EMPR PFD 902966, 826494, 672836

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