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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Jun-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name LET, LURK, LETAIN, TAK, TAIN, CREEK, MEG Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I027
Status Showing NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 17' 21'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 36' 34'' Northing 6460971
Easting 522899
Commodities Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Let occurrence is located about 85 kilometres east-southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by upper Mississippian to Permian Cache Creek Complex rocks including metavolcanics (greenstone), metasediments and tectonically emplaced ultramafic rocks. The Cache Creek ultramafic rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are generally serpentinized.

Scattered grains of chalcopyrite and pyrite occur over a small area in a gossanous ridge zone. The zone is hosted in a sericite schist/metarhyolite unit.

In 1977, two holes were drilled by Westfrob Mines (Falconbridge Nickel Mines Ltd.) within 1 kilometre to the northwest of the above zone. Traces of chalcopyrite were reported in one of the holes drilled. Geochemical, induced polarization, electromagnetic and magnetometer surveys were also conducted over a large area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 6406, *7603
EMPR EXPL 1977-E233
EMPR OF 1989-18; 1996-11
GSC OF 56; 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27
Falconbridge File

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