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MINFILE No  103B 048
File Created: 26-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  03-Mar-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103B3 Cu3
Name LOUSCOONE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B024
Status Showing NTS Map 103B03W
Latitude 052º 12' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 17' 26'' Northing 5787270
Easting 343512
Commodities Copper Deposit Types D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Louscoone showing, discovered in 1959, is located west of the north end of Louscoone Inlet.

Native copper, cuprite and tetrahedrite are reported to occur in basaltic rocks of the Upper Triassic, Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 54, p. 220
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 88-1E, pp. 221-227; 89-1H; 90-10; 93-1E, pp. 1-8
EMPR PFD 17121
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