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File Created: 19-Aug-1991 by John L. Gravel (JLG)
Last Edit:  02-Feb-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name PAY 4, BOW 12, MCBRIDE RIVER Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104H094
Status Showing NTS Map 104H14E
Latitude 057º 57' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 13' 24'' Northing 6424743
Easting 486786
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Pay 4 occurrence lies on the southwestern flank of Mount Sister Mary, approximately 1.4 kilometres southwest of the peak and 3.0 kilometres east of the junction between the Stikine and McBride rivers, 47 kilometres east-northeast of the village of Iskut. Rugged mountains to the north of the showing and strongly incised rolling highlands to the south marks the division between the Spatsizi Plateau and Cassiar Mountains. Refer to the Pay occurrence (104H 007), located 1.4 kilometres north, for work history and regional geology.

Similar to the Pay showing, the Pay 4 showing comprises chalcopyrite as disseminations and hairline fractures with abundant pyrite and magnetite. However, the host pluton is a hornblende diorite marginal phase of the Middle Jurassic Three Sisters Plutonic Suite (subdivision of the Late Triassic to Late Jurassic Hotailuh batholith). The hostrock is weakly sericitized and chloritized. Peripheral porphyritic andesite flows, breccia and tuffs belonging to an unnamed Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic assemblage has been hornfelsed.

Bulldozer trenching (3600 metres) tested mineralization at the Pay and Pay 4 occurrences. A chip sample from the Pay 4 showing assayed 0.01 per cent copper, 6.8 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Property File - Bowser Resources Ltd., 1969).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3203
EMPR GEM 1969-47; 1971-43
EMPR PF (In 104H 007 - *Bowser Resources Ltd., Report on the McBride River Project, 1969)
EMPR PFD 19708
GSC MAP 1957-9
GSC OF 1005; *2241

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