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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  08-Apr-2021 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 093K11 Ag1
Name CUNNINGHAM LAKE, LORNE, MEGAMINE 2 Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093K053
Status Showing NTS Map 093K11W
Latitude 054º 34' 51'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 26' 59'' Northing 6050907
Easting 341681
Commodities Silver, Lead Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Cunningham Lake occurrence is located near the southwest shore of Cunningham Lake, approximately 17 kilometres northeast of Donald Landing on Babine Lake.

Regionally, the area lies in a region underlain by metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks of the Lower Permian to Upper Triassic Cache Creek Complex and undivided sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Sitlika Assemblage. These are intruded by quartz dioritic rocks of the Middle Jurassic Endako Batholith to the southeast and Eocene granitic to granodioritic rocks to the northwest.

Locally, silver-lead mineralization, assumed to be in the form of argentiferous galena, is reported to occur in argillite and andesite of the Cache Creek group.

Work History

Equity Silver explored the area in 1960s.

In 2007, Amarc Resources Ltd. held the area as apart of the Megamine property. A soil sampling program was completed on the Megamine 5 and 6 claims to the northwest.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 29694
EMPR EXPL 1992-69-106
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 69-86, 475-482
EMPR GEM 1969-120
EMPR MIN POT MAP 1993-2
EMPR OF 1993-9
EMPR PF (Claim Map and notes, date unknown)
EMPR PFD 15278
GSC MAP 631A; 907A; 1424A; 5314G
GSC MEM 252
GSC OF 2593, 3183
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 115-120; 91-1A, pp. 7-13

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