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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jun-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L14 Ag14
Name ZOBNIC Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L074
Status Showing NTS Map 093L14E
Latitude 054º 47' 17'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 12' 06'' Northing 6072690
Easting 615636
Commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The claims are underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics comprised mainly of andesite, tuff, flow breccia and rhyodacite to rhyolitic flows.

At elevation 549 metres, a sparsely mineralized shear zone in the andesite strikes 285 degrees and dips 60 degrees southwest. The shear hosts minor galena, sphalerite and pyrite. Two other parallel mineralized shear zones striking northwest host malachite staining with the upper zone hosting minor tetrahedrite. A selected sample from the upper zone in 1927 assayed trace gold, 3566 grams per tonne silver and 1.5 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927, page 137).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 195-208; 1991, pp. 93-101
EMPR AR 1927-137; *1966-91
EMPR GEM 1971-177
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC MAP 971A
GSC P 44-23
GSC OF 351
GSC MEM *223, p. 131
GSC BULL 270
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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