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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-Aug-1991 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI 093M6 Zn1
Name JACK OF HEARTS, JACK OF SPADES, ACE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M044
Status Showing NTS Map 093M06W
Latitude 055º 24' 10'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 16' 21'' Northing 6140971
Easting 609390
Commodities Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Jack of Hearts occurrence is described as being located on Twenty Mile Mountain, which does not occur on modern maps but should be northeast of Eighteen Mile Creek, 25 kilometres east of Hazelton. Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2322 shows an occurrence (#242) in this same area, on the southeast side of Natlan Peak. These are likely the same showing.

Lithologies in the area comprise argillites and greywackes of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group. A diorite to granodiorite plug of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions outcrops west of the reported location of the occurrence.

The occurrence is described as a 45-centimetre seam of sphalerite, with thin bands of greyish white magnesian ankerite and minor galena. The seam occurs in a quartz gangue and appears to follow a bedding plane in altered sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary rocks strike 030 degrees, dipping 50 degrees northwest. The footwall consists of rusty argillite and the hangingwall of hard silicified sandstone.

Bibliography
GSC OF 2322 (#242)
GSC ANN RPT *1909, p. 65.
EMPR PFD 681489

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