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File Created: 18-Feb-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  05-Aug-1989 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name DIABASE, SURF INLET Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H006
Status Showing NTS Map 103H02W
Latitude 053º 04' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 52' 16'' Northing 5879973
Easting 508636
Commodities Gold, Silver, Tellurium Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

An extensive, complex shear system occurs in intrusive and gneissic volcanics and metasediments of the Coast Plutonic Complex. Gold associated with pyrite occurs in quartz-ankerite-sericite- sulphide veins within the shear zone. The Diabase showing is located in the southern part of the north- south trending shear system, about 2700 metres south of the Surf Inlet Mine (103H 027). A 1 metre wide quartz vein, occurring within sheared and altered diorite, is cut by a 3 metre wide diabase dyke. A 70 centimetre sample across the vein assayed 4.4 grams per tonne gold, 24.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.0015 per cent tellurium (Assessment Report 15377).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 10071, 15369, *15377
EMPR EXPL 1986-C423
EMPR PF (Surf Inlet Mines Ltd., Prospectus, Aug.27, 1987, in 103H 027)
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A
GSC P 70-41
V STOCKWATCH Nov.30, 1987

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