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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Jun-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L14 Ag8
Name HB, GROUNDHOG, CARIBOO Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L074
Status Showing NTS Map 093L14W
Latitude 054º 47' 00'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 17' 46'' Northing 6072013
Easting 609576
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The claims are underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group vol- canics comprised of andesitic to rhyolitic flows, tuffs and breccia. On the Cariboo, a fissure vein 1.8 metres wide host mineralization and strikes 310 degrees. At 1722 metres elevation, a brecciated fault fissure strikes 345 degrees. The quartz vein filling ranges from 15 to 30 centimetres and hosts sphalerite, chalcopyrite and iron oxides. In 1911, a sample assayed 2.7 grams per tonne gold, 277.7 grams per tonne silver, and 2.1 per cent lead. Another sample taken from this fissure at a higher elevation assayed 2.7 grams per tonne gold, 178.6 grams per tonne silver, 3.2 per cent lead and 0.75 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1911, page 119).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1911-119; 1912-115; 1926-132
GSC MEM 226 (Rev) p. 102
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC P 44-23
EMPR EXPL 1980-346
EMPR ASS RPT 8940, *15140
EMPR PF (Sevensma, P.H., (1968): Buval Mines Ltd. Examination Report on the HB Claims)
GSC BULL 270
GSC OF 351
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 195-208
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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