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File Created: 19-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  11-Apr-2006 by Kirk Hancock (KDH)

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NMI 103F8 Cu3
Name MINO Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103F040
Status Showing NTS Map 103F08E
Latitude 053º 22' 19'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 00' 36'' Northing 5917633
Easting 699022
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types * : Unknown
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The showing is located at an elevation of 152 metres just east of the Tlell River.

The area is underlain by Middle Jurassic Yakoun Group andesites which are intruded by granodiorite and quartz diorite of the Chinukundl Pluton of the Middle to Late Jurassic Burnaby Island Plutonic Suite. The northwest trending Sandspit fault separates these rocks and the poorly consolidated sediments of the Tertiary Skonun Formation which lie to the northeast.

Disseminated pyrite with minor chalcopyrite, molybdenite, sphalerite, and galena occur within infaulted wedges of sheared and hornfelsed Yakoun Group rocks, and within the intrusive rocks where north trending faults are favoured.

In 1968 MINO 1 to 78 claims were owned by E. Specogna, and G. Trinco. Falconbridge Nickel Mines Limited surveyed the Mino 1, 2, 5 and 6 claims with a soil sample and magnetometer survey. Silt samples were taken over the entire group for geochemical analysis. In 1969 the company collected 3500 soil and 1,000 silt samples in the vicinity of T1e11 River and north of lower Millar Creek for geochemical analysis. They also blasted 20 trenches for a total length.of 152.4 metres and 30 shallow pits.

In 1970, Adanac Mining and Exploration Ltd. optioned Mino 1 to 124,Nadisa 1 to 14, Lucia 1 to 24, Tania 1 to 6, .and Carol 1 to 6 - a total of 174 claims. The company also staked Aida 1 to 70. Work included surface geological mapping on Mino 1, 2, 5, 6, and 49 and surface diamond drilling of 2 holes totalling 155 metres on Mino 1 and 49.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1968-72
EMPR ASS RPT 2046A B *10277, *11391
EMPR BULL 54
EMPR GEM 1969-72,73; 1970-100
EMR MP CORPFILE (Adanac Mining and Exploration Ltd.)
EMPR PF McDougal, J.J (1969): Preliminary Report on Miller Creek Copper-Molybdenum to December 31, 1968
GSC BULL 365
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC OF 2319
GSC P 67-2,Part A; 86-20; 88-1E, pp. 214-216, 221-227; 89-1H,
pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 59-87; 91-1A, pp. 353-358

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