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File Created: 06-Oct-1987 by Henry W. Marsden (HWM)
Last Edit:  29-Jan-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name CYATHID MOUNTAIN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104P072
Status Showing NTS Map 104P12E
Latitude 059º 44' 16'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 38' 18'' Northing 6622381
Easting 464114
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Cyathid Mountain occurrence is located west of the Blue River, approximately 23 kilometres south of the Yukon-British Columbia border, about 146 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake. In 1987, the Cyathid Mountain showing was discovered in the course of mapping by the Geological Survey Branch.

The showing occurs in a strong quartz-calcite stockwork zone that cuts Lower Cambrian archeocyathid-bearing dolomite and limestone of the Rosella Formation (Atan Group). The 70 by 15 metre zone has a strike of 030 degrees and dips 65 degrees northeast. Mineralization consists of very minor chalcopyrite.

The Cyathid Mountain stockwork grades into a zone of brecciation and calcite spar 1.5 kilometres to the northeast. This feature points to the importance of structural control for this kind of mineralization. The showing may be related to an episode of late Cretaceous to Eocene intrusion and lead-zinc-silver mineralization (Fieldwork 1987).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *1987, pp. 232-243
EMPR OF 1988-10; 1996-11
EMPR MP MAP 1992-11
EMPR BULL 83
GSC MEM 319
GSC MAP 1110A
GSC OF 2779
EMPR PFD 812798

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