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File Created: 07-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  06-Mar-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103B6 Cu10
Name FLO, SWAN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103B034
Status Showing NTS Map 103B06W
Latitude 052º 22' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 17' 36'' Northing 5805192
Easting 343890
Commodities Copper, Iron, Magnetite Deposit Types K03 : Fe skarn
K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The showings are situated less than 61 metres from tidewater at the east entrance to Poole Inlet on Burnaby Island.

The Flo group of 24 recorded claims was held in 1964 by Merrican International Mines Ltd. The company completed 152 metres of diamond drilling in the vicinity.

The area is underlain predominantly by massive grey limestone and black, thin bedded limestone of the Upper Triassic Sadler and Peril Formations (Kunga Group) and lithic siltstone and greywacke of the Lower Cretaceous Longarm Formation. A monzonitic intrusive of the Middle to Late Jurassic Burnaby Island Plutonic Suite occurs east of the showing.

A magnetite replacement zone, 40 by 30 metres, occurs in Kunga limestone near a major north trending fault. Assays on four samples from diamond drilling in 1964, ranged from 60.80 per cent to 69.60 per cent iron (National Mineral Inventory Card 103B6 Cu10).

About 180 metres east of the magnetite zone, chalcopyrite outcrops in the limestone as two occurrences, 60 metres apart, with lengths of 9 and 22 metres, respectively. Widths range from 3 to 4.5 metres, with assays showing 4 per cent copper and 1 per cent copper (Minister of Mines, Annual Report 1964, page 46).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1964-46-47
EMPR ASS RPT *8901
EMPR BULL *54, p. 214
EMPR EXPL 1980-364
EMPR PF (Selnes, W.E., (1963): Burnaby Island Iron Groups for Merrican International Mines Ltd., May 28, 1963, refer to Mac - 103B 019)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Merrican International Industries Ltd.)
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E, pp. 213-216,221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 163-172; 91-1A, pp. 383-391
MIN REV March/April 1988, pp. 19-24

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