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File Created: 26-Sep-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  25-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I15 Zn1
Name LOU Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I096
Status Showing NTS Map 103I15W
Latitude 054º 58' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 50' 37'' Northing 6091990
Easting 510010
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

Quartz filled shear zones, striking north to northeast, occur in Jurassic to Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group sedimentary rocks. The rocks consist of coarsely interbedded black argillites, impure greenish quartzites, and fine-grained, grey greywackes which have been tightly folded along a northeast trending axis. The folds have associated shears and faults with quartz veins. Pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, possibly smithsonite, and secondary hydrozincite occur in the veins as disseminations and coarse blebs.

Drill hole #1 intersected 3.75 per cent zinc, 0.27 per cent copper, 0.02 per cent lead, 20.6 grams per tonne silver and 0.3 grams per tonne gold over 2.4 metres. Drill hole #3, 180 metres to the northeast, intersected 5.00 per cent zinc, 0.69 per cent copper, 0.10 per cent lead, 37.7 grams per tonne silver and trace gold over 50.8 centimetres (Property File: White, 1969).

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1969-71
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR PF (*Rpt by G.P.E. White, 1969 in GOLD STAR property - 103I 038)
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
EMPR PFD 670982, 670983

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