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File Created: 30-Apr-2014 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  21-Apr-2021 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name COPLEY EXTENSION Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093F076
Status Showing NTS Map 093F15W
Latitude 053º 46' 06'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 124º 51' 01'' Northing 5959335
Easting 378049
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Copley Extension occurrence is located near the western shore of Rognaas Lake.

The area is primarily underlain by felsic volcanic rocks of the Eocene Ootsa Lake Formation, including crystal tuff, lapilli tuff, flow banded rhyolite, volcanic breccias, and some porphyritic andesite.

Locally, clay altered and silicified rhyolites to dacites host quartz veins with pyrite, specularite and limonite staining.

Work History

During 2009 through 2013, F. Critchlow of Kootenay Gold Inc. acquired the property and subsequently completed programs of rock geochemistry and prospecting. Two rock samples (Sak12-218 and Sak12-219) assayed 2.565 and 3.661 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 33581).

In 2017, Glen Prior completed a small rock sampling program on the property adjacent to the occurrence. The sampling was completed approximately 400 metres to the west of the Copley Extension occurrence. Highlighted results included sample 17RG1002, which graded 0.43 grams per tonne gold, and sample 17RG1003, which graded 2.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 37440).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 26896, 27265, 32084, 32086, 32691, *33581, *37440
EMPR EXPL 1988-C158; 1992-69-106
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-481; 1993, pp. 9-14; 1994, pp. 167-170, *177-191, 193-197; 1999, pp. 173-184
GSC MAP 1131A; 1424A
GSC MEM 324
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 115-120

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