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File Created: 22-Dec-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I9 Ag4
Name A - B, RIDGE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I069
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09W
Latitude 054º 41' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 22' 36'' Northing 6061401
Easting 540172
Commodities Silver, Copper, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Andesites of the Jurassic Hazelton Group are cut by shear zones and quartz veins mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite. A shear zone, up to 6 metres wide, contains two quartz veins trending 75 degrees and dipping 45 degrees north. A sample of a 38 centimetre vein assayed 0.2 grams per tonne gold, 24 grams per tonne silver and 0.39 per cent copper (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 329). About 16 metres to the east, a 3.4 metre sample of disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite in a shear zone assayed 0.2 grams per tonne gold, 12.3 grams per tonne silver and 0.23 per cent copper (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 329). A 0.5 metre wide mineralized quartz vein occurs 53 metres further to the east.

About 120 metres to the north, between two lakes, a 15 to 30 centimetre wide vein, striking 010 degrees and dipping 45 degrees east, is exposed for 7.6 metres. A sample assayed 0.3 grams per tonne gold, 2.4 grams per tonne silver and 10.20 per cent zinc (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 205).

Bibliography
EMPR MAP 69-1; 8
EMPR PF (*Sketch Map by J.T. Mandy, 1938)
GSC MAP 11-1956; 1136A; 278A; 1385A
GSC MEM *205, p. 57; *329, pp. 87,88
GSC P 36-17, pp. 99,100
EMPR PFD 18021, 18023, 18026, 18030

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