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MINFILE No  103F 007
File Created: 13-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  02-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI 103F1 Cu1
Name DOWNIE ISLAND SHOWING Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103F019
Status Showing NTS Map 103F01W
Latitude 053º 07' 19'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 16' 56'' Northing 5889105
Easting 681974
Commodities Copper Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The showing is located at about the 457 metre elevation on Moresby Island, 5.6 kilometres southeast of Downie Island in Skidgate Channel.

A copper showing occurs as a metasomatic replacement within moderately north dipping limestone of the Juro-Triassic Kunga Group.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 54, p. 220
EMPR OF 2000-14
GSC MAP 1385A; 4-1990
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E; 89-1H, pp. 7-11; 90-10, pp. 163-172
EMPR PFD 840921, 840944, 841033, 842027, 842034, 843273, 843274, 843275, 843276, 843277, 673295, 521724
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