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File Created: 24-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  08-Mar-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103B6 Fe8
Name TIP, TIP 1 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B034
Status Showing NTS Map 103B06E
Latitude 052º 18' 19'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 13' 16'' Northing 5797316
Easting 348568
Commodities Iron, Copper, Magnetite Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

This property is located on the southeast coast of Moresby Island, on the shore just south of the dock at Harriet Harbour. The showing was discovered and explored by Francis Poole in 1863. Jedway Iron Ore Limited acquired the property in 1961 as the Tip No. 1 claim.

An irregular garnetiferous copper-magnetite skarn occurs at the contact of the Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen volcanics and Upper Triassic Sadler Formation limestone. The mineralized body, consisting of magnetite, chalcopyrite, pyrite, garnet, calcite and quartz, is 46 metres long and 15 metres wide and strikes 060 degrees with a 25 to 45 degree north dip.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 54, p. 199
GSC EC GEOL *Series 3, Vol. 1, 1926, p. 34
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 88-1E, pp. 213-216,221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 163-172; 91-1A, pp. 383-391
GSC PROG RPT *1878-1879, Pt. B, pp. 17, 53-55
MIN REV *March/April 1988, pp. 19-24
EMPR PFD 840917, 671134

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