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File Created: 17-Aug-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  21-Feb-2014 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name AZURE CREEK, ZIP 3, MAC, INHINI Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B064
Status Showing NTS Map 104B11W
Latitude 056º 38' 52'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 19' 39'' Northing 6280600
Easting 357300
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Azure Creek showing occurs in an area of Devonian to Permian Stikine Assemblage rock overlain by Upper Triassic rock of the Stuhini Group. The stratigraphy is intruded by the Early Jurassic Zippa Mountain Plutonic Complex, which ranges compositionally from leuco-syenite to mafic syenite and pyroxenite, and the Late Triassic Seraphim Mountain Pluton consisting of quartz monzonitic rock.

In 1989, Corona Corporation prospected the ZIP 3, 4 and MAC 3, 4 claims (Inhini property) and collected 4 panned concentrate silt, 9 silt and 68 rock chip samples. In 1990, Link Resources Inc. carried out a 700 kilometre airborne magnetic and EM survey over the entire Inhini Property (Assessment Report 20972).

Just east of a small unnamed lake on the ZIP 3 claim a narrow (less than 2 centimetre) fracture/shear zone occurs in an ankerite altered feldspar porphyritic syenite (Assessment Report 19353). Andesite and granodiorite dikes occur locally. This fracture is mineralized with galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite and quartz. A grab sample (82179) of this mineralized fracture/shear vein assayed 1.6 grams per tonne gold, 266.40 grams per tonne silver, 1.58 per cent lead, 0.45 per cent zinc and 0.22 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19834).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 19834, *19353, 20972
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR GM 1997-03
EMPR OF 1989-10; 1990-16; 1994-1; 1992-1; 1992-3; 1998-10
GSC MAP 311A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 246, p. 25,74
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
EMPR PFD 905165, 671595

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