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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Jun-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L14 Au13
Name RACHEL, CASCADE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L074
Status Prospect NTS Map 093L14E, 093L14W
Latitude 054º 47' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 15' 16'' Northing 6073160
Easting 612229
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The claim is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group vol- canics comprised of red andesitic flows and tuffs with breccia, green tuff and rhyodacite flows. The showing is within a shear zone in the volcanics. The zone contains bands of quartz veins with minor occurrences of arsenopyrite, sphalerite and pyrite.

The upper showing consists of a 8 to 15 centimetre quartz vein which strikes 080 degrees and dips 42 degrees south, with abundant pyrite and lesser arsenopyrite, sphalerite, galena, and minor chalcopyrite. The vein is hosted by hornfelsed, fine-grained tuff. Above the upper adit portal a 10 centimetre wide quartz- carbonate vein with arsenopyrite, pyrite, and minor galena strikes 100 degrees and dip 10 degrees south. The continuation of the upper adit vein appears to be a 3 to 5 centimetre shear with gouge striking 100 degrees and dipping 60 degrees south.

In 1986 samples from this adit assayed 3.6 to 6.2 grams per tonne gold, 8.2 to 32.6 grams per tonne silver with up to 8.66 per cent zinc and 0.87 per cent lead (Assessment Report 15140).

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1986-359
EMPR ASS RPT *15140
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 195-208
EMPR AR 1912-115; 1923-110; 1924-96; 1925-136
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC MAP 971A
GSC ANN RPT 1925A, p. 137
GSC MEM 223 (Rev) p. 91
GSC P 44-23
GSC BULL 270
GSC SUM RPT 1925A, pp. 120-143
Kirkham, R.V., (1969): A Mineralogical and Geochemical Study of the Zonal Distribution of Ores in the Hudson Bay Range, British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Wisconsin

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