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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-May-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I15 Cu1
Name GB Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I096
Status Showing NTS Map 104I15W
Latitude 058º 54' 28'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 53' 04'' Northing 6529789
Easting 506657
Commodities Copper, Silver, Nickel, Gold, Asbestos Deposit Types M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The GB showing is located about 85 kilometres northeast of the community of Dease Lake.

Pyrite, pyrrhotite, pentlandite, chalcopyrite and minor bornite occur within a Devonian to Permian body of serpentinized peridotite. The peridotite body strikes roughly northwest within amphibolitic gneisses, hornblende and sericite schists of the Precambrian to Permian Rapid River Tectonite. Mineralization is disseminated but occasionally pyrrhotite occurs as hairline stringers. Gossan development is evident in the area of the sulphides. Adjacent to this sulphide area, a quartz vein occurs containing similar sulphides.

Away from the mineralization, porphyritic diorite dikes carrying minor pyrite cut the ultramafic body. The dikes host a fractured quartz vein hosting minor pyrite, chalcopyrite and malachite. Occasional chrysotile veinlets are present in the peridotite.

In 1970, a 1.6-metre chip sample assayed 27.43 grams per tonne silver, 0.11 per cent nickel and trace gold (Assessment Report 2797, Geology and Sampling Plan map).

In 1970, work began on the GB claims by Minex Development Ltd. and consisted of a ground magnetometer survey which was conducted in the vicinity of known mineralization and gossan exposures. Prospecting was also completed and electromagnetic (EM-16) traverses were run across the main showing area. In addition, 130 soil samples were taken in the vicinity of the magnetic anomaly and mineralized zones and five test pits were dug.

Bibliography
EMPR PF (Preliminary Magnetometer and Geochemical Survey map, Minex Development, 1970)
EMPR GEM 1970-39
EMPR ASS RPT 2580, *2797
EMPR OF 1995-25; 1996-11
EMPR PFD 19819, 19820, 812284
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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