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File Created: 24-Jun-1988 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  11-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name JIM, FLORY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B037
Status Showing NTS Map 104B07E
Latitude 056º 21' 20'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 39' 47'' Northing 6246895
Easting 397239
Commodities Copper, Iron, Magnetite, Gold Deposit Types K04 : Au skarn
K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Jim occurrence lies within 5 kilometres of the Coast Crystalline Complex and is underlain by the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group, intruded by Middle Jurassic and younger diorites and grano- diorites.

Seven distinct rock types have been noted on the property and include greenstone within which the feldspars have been epidotized and saussuritized. Accessory minerals include magnetite, pyrrhotite and chlorite. Fine-grained andesitic tuff have had their minor structures obliterated by regional metamorphism. The limestone-shale sequence also contains greywackes with individual bands being less than 1 centimetre. Slickensides and small scale drag folds are abundant in this formation. The diorite, which may be a hypabyssal equivalent of the greenstone, are generally similar but coarser grained than the greenstone. An amphibolite unit has been mapped and is thought to be derived from the greenstone. A granodiorite dyke, about 30 metres wide, has been described as coarse-grained, light coloured holocrystalline rock with rounded basic zenoliths. Several porphyritic dykes, which exhibit a glassy black matrix and moderately coarse-grained phenocrysts of feldspar and quartz, have been observed in the occurrence area.

A zone of alteration, which tends to be sporadic, usually con- forms to the dip and strike of enclosing beds but does exhibit minor independant fluctuations. The altered rock is reportedly a tuff and skarn alteration has been noted in some sedimentary units. The alter- ation consists mainly of epidotization with "associated skarn-type minerals, including garnet". Magnetite, pyrite and chalcopyrite occur within the altered zone. In 1911, gold values of about 64 grams per tonne gold were reported from this area.

In 2006 and 2007, Hathor Exploration Ltd. completed a 7228.7 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Quillian claims of the Iskut project. In 2008, Max Minerals Ltd. examined the property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1911-66,67
EMPR ASS RPT *2503, 16858
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 241-250
EMPR GEM 1962-8; *1969-54
EMPR OF 1989-10
EMPR PF (Geol. Map, 1:31 250 scale, Newmont Exploration of Canada
Ltd., 1960's)
GSC MAP 1418A; 7780G; 9-1957
GSC P 89-1E pp.145-154
Equity Preservation Corp. Stewart-Sulphurets-Iskut Compilation Dec.
1988 (Showing No. B44)
Cavey, G. (2008-11-14): Technical Report on the Iskut Project
EMPR PFD 803501

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