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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-Aug-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L10 Zn3
Name BRENDA, BULKLEY, PARADISE, BW, BURN 2, ARCTIC Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L067
Status Showing NTS Map 093L10E
Latitude 054º 40' 15'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 37' 23'' Northing 6060758
Easting 653277
Commodities Copper, Silver, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics of the Telkwa Formation comprised of andesitic flows, tuffs and breccias. Overlying the Telkwa Formation, is the Nilkitkwa Formation which is comprised of a mixture of pyroclastics, flows and sediment- ary rocks. The volcanics are intruded by stocks comprised of granodiorite, monzonite, and diorite.

Locally, the volcanic rocks of the Hazelton Group strike 310 degrees and dip 25 degrees southwest. The area of the Brenda showing is underlain mainly by maroon feldspar-crystal tuff and lapilli tuff of the Lower Jurassic Nilkitkwa Formation. To the east, a diorite intrusive is exposed.

A shear zone ranging from 6 to 12 metres in width trends about 065 degrees in the andesitic tuff. Mineralization occurs in part as disseminations and as replacement infillings along bedding planes adjacent to the shearing. On the right side of the creek open cuts expose massive pyrite with magnetite, sphalerite, and malachite staining. A sample across 1.8 metres of solid sulphide assayed trace silver, gold, copper, and 1.2 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 1665).

About 300 metres to the northeast there is a slightly minerali- zed diorite hosting chalcopyrite and pyrite.

On the Paradise property, the shear zone was described in 1918 as locally hosting quartz veining, ranging from 1.5 to 3.0 metres in width, mineralized with pyrite, magnetite, and minor arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite.

Recently, an old campsite and trenches were found. Abundant malachite staining occurs in the old trenches. In 1988, a grab sample from one of the trenches assayed 1.96 per cent copper and 261 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17255). About 400 metres to the east is a small quartz vein with minor galena and chalcopyrite mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1918-124; 1929-170; *1968-137
EMPR ASS RPT 1665, 2444, 2543, 7286, *17255, 17478, 17874
EMPR EXPL *1988-C170
GSC P 40-18
GSC MAP 671A; 971A
EMPR FIELDWORK *1986, p. 216; *1988, pp. 195-208
EMPR OF *1987-1
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC OF 351
GSC BULL 270
EMPR PFD 801448, 802276, 802278

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