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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I5 Cu1
Name KAY 19, KIM, KING Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I021
Status Showing NTS Map 104I05W
Latitude 058º 16' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 56' 53'' Northing 6459873
Easting 444395
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Kay 19 occurrence is located about 20 kilometres south-southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The showing occurs in an area underlain by Upper Triassic rocks of the Stuhini Group. Rocks observed on the property consist of andesitic and basaltic flows, pyroclastics, clastics, greenish red breccias and porphyritic andesites. These rocks are intruded by Late Triassic granodiorite to hornblende quartz monzonite.

Biotite altered and silicified volcaniclastic sediments contain chalcopyrite as fine disseminations and fracture fillings. Hand trenching exposed an area about 1.8 by 6.7 metres in size. The mineralized area is bounded by a dike on the north and open to the south. A large monzonite outcrop occurs a short distance to the southwest. Traces of bornite, pyrrhotite and magnetite are associated with the chalcopyrite. Three diamond-drill holes were completed in 1971 and a 1.07-metre interval assayed 0.09 per copper, 3.43 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Assessment Report 3372).

From 1969 to 1972, the Kay claims were worked by Tanzilla Explorations Ltd. Aside from the drilling reported previously, geological, geochemical and geophysical (including magnetometer and induced polarization) surveys were completed. Refer also to the Kay 49 occurrence (104I 026) located 2.4 kilometres south.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1969-45; 1970-38; 1971-45; 1972-538
EMPR ASS RPT 2152, 2622, 2766, 2767, 3204, 3205, *3372, 3973
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 429-434
EMPR OF 1996-11
EMPR PFD 861326
EMPR PF (Aikens, C.E.T. (1974): Report on Work on Forfeited Claims, Tanzilla Explorations Ltd, Ko, Kay, King Fr. and Box Claims)
GSC MEM 194, pp. 7,16
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27
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