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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Jun-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 094K11 Cu9
Name GANG Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 094K055
Status Showing NTS Map 094K11E
Latitude 058º 33' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 04' 08'' Northing 6493316
Easting 379649
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Gang copper occurrence is provisionally located in the centre of the Gang group of claims, approximately 1 kilometre west of Racing River and 3 kilometres south-southwest of the mouth of Wokkpash Creek in the Muskwa Ranges of the Northern Rocky Mountains (Assessment Report 1042, Figure 2).

The occurrence is in an area of folding and complicated thrust faulting, immediately west of the Sentinel thrust, in a major, north-northwest–trending structural region known as the Muskwa Anticlinorium. The area is underlain by rocks ranging from the Middle Proterozoic Tuchodi Formation, part of the Helikian Muskwa Assemblage, and unconformably overlying Silurian and Devonian sedimentary rock units (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 373, Map 1343A; Geological Society of America, Geology of North America, Volume G-2, pages 111, 639). All belong to Ancestral North America (Geological Survey of Canada Map 1713A).

Locally, a copper occurrence is reported. No geological description is available other than the group of claims lie near a transcurrent fault.

Work History

In 1966, Racing River Mines Ltd. completed a program of geological mapping and a ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the Billy, Kid, Nanny and Sam claims.

In 2005, Twenty-Seven Capital Corp. completed a regionally extensive program of geochemical (rock, silt and soil) sampling and a 9002.0 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area as the Muskwa property (Assessment Report 28281).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *1042, 28281
EMR MP CORPFILE (Racing River Mines Limited, The Geology of the Racing River area)
EMPR PFD 671119
GSC MAP 1343A; 1713A
GSC MEM 373
GSC P 67-68
GSA (Gabrielse, H. and Yorath, C.J. (Editors) (1991): Geology of North America, Volume G-2).

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