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File Created: 24-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  09-Mar-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103B6 Fe7
Name BLUE BELLE (L.80), DINGO (L.87) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B024
Status Prospect NTS Map 103B06E
Latitude 052º 16' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 13' 36'' Northing 5794856
Easting 348114
Commodities Iron, Magnetite Deposit Types K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

This property consists of one Crown-granted claim (Lot 80), covering 14.78 acres. It is located at 244 metres elevation about 0.8 kilometre southwest of Harriet Harbour on the southeast coast of Moresby Island. It has commonly been called the Dingo although this is actually a separate showing and claim. It is part of a large group of claims originally held by J.S. McMillan (see Copper Queen, 103B 035).

The showing was probably discovered around 1906 and was Crown-granted to McMillan in 1909. In 1960 Silver Standard Mines Limited drilled seven EX holes totalling 169 metres, out-lining 13,607 tonnes grading 60 per cent iron. Some geophysical work was also done.

Jedway Iron Ore Limited acquired the property in 1961.

A small pipe-like lens of magnetite with minor garnet, striking northwest and dipping near vertically, occurs at the contact of Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen volcanics and Upper Triassic Sadler Formation (Kunga Group) limestone. Surface exposure of the lens is about 12 metres long and 1.5 to 4.5 metres wide. Drilling in 1960 outlined about 13,600 tonnes grading probably 50.0 per cent iron (Bulletin 54, page 208).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1909-275; 1911-287; 1959-14; 1960-12; 1961-14
EMPR BULL *54, p. 208
EMR MP CORPFILE (Silver Standard Mines Limited; Jedway Iron Ore Limited)
GSC EC GEOL Series 3, Vol. 1, 1926, p. 36
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 88-1E, pp. 221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-104; 90-10, pp. 163-172; 91-1A, pp. 383-391
GSC SUM RPT 1909, p. 78
W MINER Oct., 1959; Jan., 1962; Sept., 1962
EMPR PFD 840917

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