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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 104I7 Cu2
Name WT, SUL, LETAIN, LET, CREEK, MEG Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I027
Status Showing NTS Map 104I07E
Latitude 058º 17' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 36' 06'' Northing 6461840
Easting 523350
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types M : ULTRAMAFIC/MAFIC ASSOCIATION
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The WT occurrence is located 6 kilometres south of Wolverine Lake, about 88 kilometres east-southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The region is underlain by northwest trending Mississippian to Triassic Cache Creek Complex rocks including metavolcanics, metasediments and tectonically emplaced ultramafic rocks of upper Mississippian to Permian age. The Cache Creek ultramafic rocks consist of peridotite, dunite and pyroxenite which are generally serpentinized.

The WT area is underlain by serpentinized peridotite and two mineral showings are reported. The first showing consists of minor chalcocite and malachite occurring on a shear plane in peridotite. Related to this mineralization is a diabase or gabbro dike with a "whiterock" zone interpreted as rodingite. A 60-centimetre sample across the centre of this showing assayed 5.4 per cent copper (Property File - Prospectus, Katanga Mines Limited, 1971). Silver values in the gabbro dike range from 2.4 to 40.8 grams per tonne (Katanga Mines Ltd., 1971). The second showing is 50 metres north-northeast of the first. A massive pod of chalcocite and magnetite is exposed by an open cut. The pod measures 0.7 by 3 metres and is surrounded by an envelope of "whiterock" cut by stringers of chalcocite and magnetite. The zone is thought to be an open-space filling in a shear zone. A composite sample yielded an average of 14 per cent copper across 2 metres (Katanga Mines Ltd., 1971).

The Sul (worked in 1975 and 1977) is probably the same showing as the WT showing (worked in 1970). The location, setting and deposit description give strong evidence for this conclusion. Also, drilling was done on the WT in 1970 and Cry Lake Jade, owner of the Sul claims, reported old drillholes on the Sul in 1977. Westfrob Mines held the adjacent Letain Creek property in 1977 and prospected the Sul showings as well. A location plot and brief description is provided in Assessment Report 7603.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2131, *5656, 6406, *6459, *7603
EMPR EXPL 1975-E190; 1977-E233
EMPR GEM 1969-49; 1970-40; 1971-46
EMPR OF 1989-18; 1996-11
EMPR PF (*Prospectus, Katanga Mines Ltd., 1971)
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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