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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Oct-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104N10 W2
Name WHI 357 Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104N076
Status Showing NTS Map 104N10W
Latitude 059º 43' 20'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 132º 56' 53'' Northing 6622261
Easting 615399
Commodities Tungsten Deposit Types I12 : W veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The WHI 357 occurrence is located about 1.5 kilometres west of the confluence of Zenazie Creek with its lower major tributary, 46 kilometres east-northeast of the community of Atlin.

The showing is located in the middle of the Surprise Lake batholith (Surprise Lake Plutonic Suite) which covers about 1100 square kilometres east and northeast of Atlin. The batholith is dated at 70.6 plus or minus 3.8 million years or Late Cretaceous. It is composed primarily of medium grained, equigranular alaskite which is essentially a leucocratic granite with microcline and orthoclase with subordinate quartz, and may or may not contain plagioclase and mafics. There are some coarse grained, quartz feldspar porphyritic varieties. The contacts between the various textural varieties are commonly gradational. There are also some massive aplitic dikes which crosscut the batholith and some very coarse grained pegmatitic zones within the alaskite with large quartz and feldspar crystals and books of biotite. The width of these zones varies considerably, but the contacts are almost always sharp.

The WHI 357 showing consists of a quartz vein hosted in alaskite and is reported to contain wolframite (Assessment Report 2334).

In 1969, Canadian Johns-Mansville Company, Limited conducted a geological reconnaissance and a ground scintillometer survey on the WHI claim block.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2332, 2333, *2334, 3730, 7345, 8171, 9342
EMPR EXPL 1977-E239; 1978-E269; 1979-299; 1980-500
EMPR GEM 1972-557
EMPR MAP 52 (with notes)
EMPR OF 1991-17; 1996-11
EMPR PFD 861510
GSC MAP 1082A
GSC MEM 307, p. 72
GSC OF 864
GSC P 74-47

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