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File Created: 12-Apr-2016 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  07-Jun-2016 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FRAN 1 Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092H032
Status Showing NTS Map 092H05E
Latitude 049º 22' 40'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 40' 06'' Northing 5470306
Easting 596661
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I : VEIN, BRECCIA AND STOCKWORK
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Undivided Metamorphic Assembl.
Capsule Geology

The Fran 1 occurrence is located on Mahood Creek, at an elevation of approximately 370 metres.

The area is underlain by greenschist metamorphic rocks of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Slollicum Schist. The country rocks are intruded to the west by a stock of Oligocene granodiorite and to the east by the Cretaceous Spuzzum pluton consisting of quartz diorite and diorite.

Locally, quartzites, shales and phyllite host pegmatitic quartz veins, varying from 0.1 to 1.0 metre wide, with pyrrhotite, pyrite and trace chalcopyrite mineralization. In 1985, rock samples (JF 6) assayed up to 1.71 grams per tonne gold and 25.71 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14294).

In 1984 and 1985, Iris Resources completed programs of rock, silt and soil sampling, geological mapping and a ground magnetic geophysical survey.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 12065, *14294
EMPR BULL 9, p. 89
GSC MAP 12-1969; 737A; 1069A; 41-1989
GSC P 69-47
EMPR PFD 827973

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