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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-Jul-1991 by Carol I. Didson (CID)

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NMI 092J3 Au3,Ag1
Name ZONE 4, DICK, ZINC Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092J005
Status Showing NTS Map 092J03E
Latitude 050º 04' 09'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 06' 55'' Northing 5546327
Easting 491750
Commodities Zinc, Copper, Lead, Gold, Silver Deposit Types K02 : Pb-Zn skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Zone 4 skarn showing is located between Brandywine and Callaghan creeks adjacent to Highway 99 near the township of Whistler. The area is underlain by diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex and metavolcanics and metasediments of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group, preserved in the Callaghan Creek roof pendant. Pliocene to Recent Garibaldi Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks to the east.

Mineralization consists of sphalerite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, pyrite, galena, covellite, argentite and electrum, contained entirely within a marble pod. Sulphides are intimately associated with calcsilicate minerals, primarily garnet and epidote, with both sulphides and calc-silicate minerals occurring in sporadic patches within the marble.

A 1.5-metre intersection from 1978 drill hole #1 contained 8.2 per cent zinc, 7.88 grams per tonne silver and 0.04 per cent copper (Assessment Report 7032). A six-metre random chip sample across a trench blasted in 1977 assayed 18.7 per cent zinc (George Cross News Letter No.179, 1977).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7032, 9404, 19433, 20047
EMPR EXPL 1978-E174; 1979-182
EMPR FIELDWORK 1977, pp. 96-102
EMPR GEOLOGY *1977-1981, pp. 98-100
GSC OF 482
GSC P 75-1A, pp. 37-40
GCNL #150,#179,#188, 1977
EMPR PFD 812646, 812647, 680657

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