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File Created: 14-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  03-Mar-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI
Name QP, P, Q Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103C100
Status Showing NTS Map 103C16E
Latitude 052º 59' 19'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 08' 31'' Northing 5874826
Easting 691834
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain mainly by Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen Formation greenstones and lesser Triassic to Jurassic Kunga Group grey limestones and argillite. Minor quartz feldspar porphyries intrude both units and may be related to a stock of the Middle to Late Jurassic Burnaby Island Plutonic Suite which occurs to the southeast.

Copper mineralization is confined to a silicified fault bounded shale wedge (0.5 by 2.0 metres), in part graphitic but non-calcareous. It is surrounded by non-mineralized chloritized andesites. Bornite and malachite are the principle copper minerals and occur in cross- cutting quartz veinlets and fractures. A typical sample assayed 1.8 per cent copper and 3.4 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 6121). Falconbridge Limited held the property as the P and Q claims in 1976.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *6121
EMPR BULL 54
EMPR EXPL *1976-161,162
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E, pp. 213-216,*221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 59-87, 163-172
PERS COMM (Anderson, R.G., March, 1989)
Falconbridge File
EMPR PFD 650277, 840925

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