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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Apr-2022 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name HOM, HOMATHKO Mining Division Clinton
BCGS Map 092N038
Status Showing NTS Map 092N07E
Latitude 051º 22' 49'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 31' 28'' Northing 5693217
Easting 393910
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Hom occurrence consists of gold-silver mineralization. Its location is known only very approximately, being approximately 6 kilometres east-northeast of Homathko Peak and 9 kilometres southwest of the southern end of Tatlayoko Lake.

Very little information is available (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1965). Geologically, the occurrence is situated in a Late Triassic to Cretaceous Eastern Waddington thrust belt imbricate zone consisting of structurally interleaved slices of metamorphic rocks unit lKCD, lKO, uTrMo, uTrlm, uTrsv, uTrMM. The imbricate zone is in fault contact with mafic volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Mount Moore Formation about 1 kilometre north of the MINFILE plot.

The thrusting has resulted in the interleaving of Upper Triassic volcanic units comprising mainly andesitic pyroclastics and flows and sedimentary units comprising mainly shale, sandstone and conglomerate. The thrusts strike east and dip south; the strata within them apparently strike northeast and dip moderately southeast.

The presence of gold and silver is related to arsenopyrite, pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization in fissure veins. Field investigations in 2011 identified the presence of arsenopyrite hosted by quartz carbonate in tonalite, but it is unclear whether or not the sampled material is the same referred to in Minfile 092N 023.

In 2010, Transition Metals Corp. staked the property and completed prospecting and mapping in 2010 and 2011.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1965-143
EMPR ASS RPT 11770, 32197, 33110, 34198, 35546, 37245, 40209
EMPR EXPL 1983-339
EMPR PF (Claim map 32B)
GSC OF 1163
GSC P 68-33
GSC MAP 5-1968; 1713A

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