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File Created: 16-Jun-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  09-Dec-1988 by Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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Name INCONSPICUOUS 6 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103F095
Status Showing NTS Map 103F14E
Latitude 053º 59' 24'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 133º 00' 36'' Northing 5984060
Easting 630580
Commodities Gold, Antimony Deposit Types H03 : Hot spring Au-Ag
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by Tertiary Masset Formation rocks consisting of dacite flows and tuffs, andesites, rhyolites, and feldspar porphyries. The volcanic units generally dip to the west and are unconformably underlain by sandstones and shales, probably of the Lower Cretaceous (Albian age) Queen Charlotte Group, Haida Formation.

A major northeast trending fault (Sams fault) and related shears cut the rocks. The shear zones offset the stratified rocks and control mineralization. Associated with the shear zones are strong argillic alteration, kaolinitic clay development, minor silicification and varying propylitic alteration.

A fault zone trending 020 degrees cuts a feldspar porphyry unit. An associated 5 metre wide silicified and mineralized zone contains disseminated and fracture-filled pyrite, arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite and stibnite. A chip sample taken across the 5 metre wide zone assayed 2.0 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 9028).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *9028, 10127, 11086, 11878, 12208
EMPR BULL 54
EMPR EXPL 1980-385
EMPR FIELDWORK 1997, pp. 19-1-19-14
GSC MAP 1385A; 8-1990
GSC P 86-20; 88-1E, pp. 221-227, 269-274; 89-1H, pp. 73-79; 90-10, pp. 305-324
GCNL #97,#247, 1983; #70, 1984

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