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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-May-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 104G3 Cu7
Name LOWER WEST, WEST ZONE, SPHAL 27, TREK, KIM, GOAT Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G004
Status Showing NTS Map 104G03W
Latitude 057º 02' 41'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 19' 14'' Northing 6324750
Easting 359220
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The West zone (Sphal 27) area is underlain by Devonian to Permian Stikine Assemblage rocks and Upper Triassic Stuhini Group rocks, which have been intruded by Late Triassic to Early Jurassic monzonitic intrusions, Eocene granitic dikes, sills and stocks and Miocene basaltic and rhyolitic dikes. Mineralization on the property is dominated by copper-gold bearing porphyry and porphyry-related disseminated, vein-controlled and breccia hosted mineralization.

The West zone (Sphal 27), which extends to the east and northeast from the Sphal 29 initial post, consists of disseminated chalcopyrite and lesser pyrite. In 1970, Kennco/BIK drilled four AQ holes on the West Zone totaling 477.3 metres. Only one hole intersected significant mineralization, with 6.1 metres grading about 0.25 per cent copper and 9.1 metres grading about 0.3 to 0.5 per cent copper (Private report for Silver Standard Mines Ltd by Milne, 1970). The area is shown on maps as orthoclase syenite. Reports indicated a 44 metre chip sample grading 0.44 copper was taken in the Sphal 27 vicinity (Assessment Report 20956).

Refer to Trek property, North zone (104G 022) for a common work history of the, of which the West zone was part of. It was reported in 2006 (Assessment Report 28624) that the West zone (Sphal 27) and the Wall zone (Tangle) may be part of one large zone as indicated by a continuous soil geochemical anomaly.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1963-8; 1964-17
EMPR EXPL 1980-471; 1981-72
EMPR FIELDWORK *1975, p. 79; 1988, p. 282
EMPR GEM 1970-60
EMPR OF 1989-8
EMPR PF (Prospectus: Lorica Resources Ltd., August 31, 1989)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Silver Standard Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 310A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246
GSC P 71-44
Desautels, P. (2011-06-21): NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Trek Property

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