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File Created: 27-Jan-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  27-Jan-1989 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 104B8 Cu2
Name SGW Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B049
Status Showing NTS Map 104B08E, 104B08W
Latitude 056º 28' 47'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 14' 56'' Northing 6260172
Easting 423079
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite veins from 1.0 to 60.0 centimetres in width occur in association with a diabase dyke along the west side of Sulphurets Glacier.

The area is underlain by tuffite of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation, Hazelton Group.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1968-45,Fig.8
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 199-209
EMPR OF 1988-4
GSC MAP 9-1957; 1418A
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
Kirkham, R.V., (1963): *The Geology and Mineral Deposits in the Vicinity of Sulphurets Glacier, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
Simpson, T.M., (1983): The Geology and Hydrothermal Alteration of the Sulphurets Deposits, Northwest British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of Idaho

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