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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jun-1993 by Moira T. Smith (MTS)

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NMI 114P10 Cu1
Name STATE OF MONTANA (L.283), ARIZONA (L.285), MONTANA, RAINY HOLLOW Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 114P058
Status Past Producer NTS Map 114P10E
Latitude 059º 34' 12'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 136º 32' 46'' Northing 6604541
Easting 412650
Commodities Silver, Copper, Gold, Bismuth Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Alexander
Capsule Geology

The State of Montana underground past producer is located at the headwaters of the Klehini River. This occurrence is skarn hosted.

Light grey marble and brown-weathering feldspathic and micaceous quartzite of probable Devonian to Upper Triassic age strike east to northeast and dip steeply north. The sediments are intruded by a fine-grained diorite body. An irregular skarn band from 2 to 18 metres wide trends subparallel to the sediments near the upper part of the marble unit. Mineralization, occurring mainly in yellow- green garnet skarn, consists of disseminated to massive sulphide lenses which occur intermittently for 21 metres and range in thickness from several centimetres to 0.45 metres and is developed along the northwestern margin of a carbonate body. Mineralization consists of bornite, chalcocite, black sphalerite, and minor wittichenite. A grab sample from the adit dump assayed 2622.9 grams per tonne silver, 4.59 per cent copper, 0.69 grams per tonne gold, and 0.92 per cent bismuth.

A small prospect pit is located approximately 200 metres south, where altered and bleached amphibolite with 5 to 10 per cent disseminated sulphides assays 1 per cent silver, 1 per cent lead and 1.4 per cent zinc.

Production from 1908 to 1909, totalled 9 tonnes, resulting in 13,778 grams per tonne silver and 2,406 kilograms copper.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL *25, pp. 48-50
GSC SUM RPT *1913, p. 31
GSC P *64-54, p. 14
EMPR ASS RPT *9989, *10847
EMPR AR 1908-249; 1908-50; 1909-52, 53, 272; 1910-55;
GSC OF 926, 2191
EMPR EXPL 1982-413,414
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 217-279
EMPR BC METAL MM00273
EMPR INDEX 3-204, 4-123

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