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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Jul-2020 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 104G11 Cu1
Name CALLBREATH, MAIN, WINONA-VERNON, B1, BM Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G074
Status Showing NTS Map 104G11W
Latitude 057º 43' 45'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 15' 51'' Northing 6400800
Easting 365180
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Callbreath area is underlain by the Middle to Late Triassic Nightout pluton that consists of quartz diorite. Pegmatites occur along the north side of the intrusive about one kilometre south of its contact with Devonian to Permian sedimentary rocks of the Stikine Assemblage. These pegmatites range from dikes, consisting mainly of quartz, to those consisting mainly of pink orthoclase. Most of these dikes are less than 30 centimetres wide and the more siliceous carry some copper mineralization in small fissures.

Kerr (GSC Memoir 246, page 74) describes one such occurrence observed in an old trench near Nightout Mountain. A shattered zone within the granodiorite, and up to 30 centimetres wide, is filled with pegmatite carrying bornite and chalcopyrite in fractures within the quartz. Up to five per cent of this zone may consist of bornite.

Chalcopyrite and bornite were also found in fractures and in quartz veins within the granodiorite some 140 metres northeast of the pegmatites of Kerr's trench. Bart Mines Ltd explored their B and BM claims in the Nightout Mountain area in 1973 discovering this extension of the Callbreath showing and naming it the "Main Zone". The veins were reported to be up to five centimetres wide and occur in a zone that has a trend of 245 degrees (southwest toward the Callbreath trench). The granodiorite is chloritized and epidotized adjacent to these fractures. Potassium-feldspar also occurs in and adjacent to the fractures. The width of the Main Zone was reported to be approximately 15 metres. Visual estimates of the zone indicate a grade of 0.5 to 1.0 per cent copper. Rocks were taken for assay but not reported.

See Gran 15 South (104G 241) for details of related work history in the area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-783
EMPR ASS RPT *4717
EMPR FIELDWORK 1990, p. 144
EMPR OF 1990-1
EMPR PF (Superintendent of Brokers and Vancouver Stock Exchange Statement of Material Facts #26/91, March 21, 1991)
EMPR PFD 19566, 880310
EMR MP CORPFILE (Bart Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 309A; 1418A
GSC MEM *246, pp. 57,74
GSC P 71-44

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