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File Created: 08-Mar-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)
Last Edit:  12-Jun-1991 by Shielagh N. Banfield (SNB)

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Name LUCY Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092I002
Status Showing NTS Map 092I04E
Latitude 050º 02' 45'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 40' 54'' Northing 5544559
Easting 594390
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Shuksan
Capsule Geology

The Lucy showing is located in a roadcut on the Log Creek gravel road, 16 kilometres northwest of North Bend.

The area is underlain by Cretaceous metamorphic rocks (amphibolite facies), possibly derived from the Permian(?) to Lower Cretaceous Bridge River Complex (Geological Survey of Canada Map 42-1989). These rocks are in fault contact with the Bridge River Complex (Group) to the east, and intruded by Late Cretaceous granitic plugs.

Black phyllite which is locally pyritic (less than 5 per cent pyrite), trends northwest and dips steeply east. Quartz sweats, parallel to foliation, are common. Unaltered quartz diorite and hornblende diorite dykes cut the phyllites in two locations. A 5 metre wide, well-fractured shear zone striking northeast crosscuts the regional foliation and hosts a mineralized quartz stockwork.

Pyrite and arsenopyrite occur as disseminations and in quartz veinlets over a strike length of 2.5 metres within the centre of the quartz stockwork. Sulphides decrease towards margins of the zone. Phyllites are silicified.

The stockwork does not extend along strike to the northeast and is covered by thick overburden to the southwest.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1986-C225
EMPR ASS RPT *15012
GSC MAP *42-1989
GSC MEM 262
GSC OF 980
GSC P 46-8; 47-10
EMPR PFD 826723, 827080

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