MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 093K 042

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	08-Apr-2021	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	093K13 Sn1
Name	TSITSUTL MOUNTAIN TIN, TSIT 1	Mining Division	Omineca
		BCGS Map	093K092
Status	Showing	NTS Map	093K13E
Latitude	054º 58' 17''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 36' 07''	Northing	6094705
		Easting	333459
Commodities	Tin, Manganese, Vanadium, Cobalt, Zinc, Rhodonite, Gemstones	Deposit Types	Q02 : Rhodonite
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Cache Creek, Stikine

Capsule Geology

The Tsitsutl Mountain tin occurrence is plotted as being located at an elevation of approximately 1750 metres on the north side a ridge extending southeast of Tsitsutl Mountain.

Regionally, mudstone, siltstone, shale, fine clastic sedimentary rocks, and greenstone to ultramafic rocks of the Lower Permian to Upper Jurassic Cache Creek Complex have been intruded by Lower Cretaceous granodioritic rocks.

The showing comprises a northwest-striking rhodonite vein cutting the rocks of the Cache Creek Group. This vein consists of about 70 per cent rhodonite; 2 to 3 per cent arsenopyrite and variable amounts of calcite, spessartine garnet and ilmenite. The vein has been exposed over widths of 46 and 61 centimetres in two places. Analyses have shown the presence of minor amounts of tin (0.09 per cent), zinc (0.37 per cent), vanadium oxide (0.65 per cent) and cobalt as well as manganese (GSC Memoir 252 p.194).

Work History

In 1996, Spokane Resources Ltd. prospected and sampled the area as the Tsit 1 claim.


Bibliography	EM OF 1999-11 EMPR ASS RPT 24520 EMPR EXPL 1992-69-106 EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-482; 1997, pp. 3-1-3-13; 1998, pp. 33-68 EMPR PFD 520220 GSC MAP 631A; 907A; 1424A GSC MEM *252, p. 194 GSC OF 2593, 3183 GSC P 72-53, pp. 45,58; 90-1F, pp. 115-120; 91-1A, pp. 7-13