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File Created: 02-Mar-1992 by Dave Nelles (DMN)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name WREN Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H072
Status Showing NTS Map 092H12E
Latitude 049º 44' 02'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 43' 29'' Northing 5509824
Easting 591898
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area of the Wren occurrence is underlain by intrusive rocks assigned to the Cretaceous Spuzzum pluton which has intruded Cretaceous to Tertiary metasedimentary rocks of the Settler Schist to the west. The intrusive rocks host numerous coarse-grained pegmatite veins with prominent biotite books and local quartz stringers and have been cut by late dykes and plugs.

The Wren showing comprises a quartz vein, up to 2 metres wide (average 1.35 metres), striking 260 degrees and dipping from 80 to 85 degrees north within granite. The vein, which is paralleled to the south by a fine-grained dyke, is exposed for approximately 160 metres near a steep headwall and hosts local pyrite and arsenopyrite, with associated low grade gold values. The best assay from eight samples across the vein graded 0.9257 gram per tonne gold and 2.74 grams per tonne silver across 65 centimetres (Assessment Report 9701).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *9701
GSC MAP 737A; 12-1969; 41-1989
GSC P 69-47
EMPR PFD 8661

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