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File Created: 17-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  06-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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NMI
Name SECURITY (OP 6), OP Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103F009
Status Showing NTS Map 103F01W
Latitude 053º 01' 09'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 18' 26'' Northing 5877612
Easting 680732
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The OP #6 showing is underlain by regionally metamorphosed greenschist facies subaerial massive and amygdaloidal basalt flows of the Vancouver Group, Upper Triassic Karmutsen Formation. Black argillites and limestones occur as interbedded sediments.

Copper mineralization is strongly associated with carbonate (ankerite?) veining and lenses. Chalcopyrite and malachite occur within these veins which cut moderately hematizated amygdaloidal basalts.

A 15 centimetre carbonate (ankerite?) vein sample with chalcopyrite, malachite, and pyrite, assayed 12.3 per cent copper (Assessment Report 9830).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *9830, 11084, 16449
EMPR BULL 54
EMPR EXPL 1982-360; 1987-C347
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E; 89-1H; 90-10
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