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File Created: 30-Aug-1985 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  16-Sep-1991 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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Name MO Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M032
Status Showing NTS Map 093M05W
Latitude 055º 18' 27'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 45' 54'' Northing 6129705
Easting 578394
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper, Arsenic Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Mo showings are located 8 kilometres northwest of Hazelton on the west slope of Hazelton Mountain. The area is underlain by a small intrusive granodiorite body, of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions, which cuts sandstone, siltstone and shale of the Lower Cretaceous Kitsuns Creek Formation (Skeena Group).

Several small quartz veins carrying disseminated chalcopyrite, sphalerite and arsenopyrite have been found on the Mo claim. The mineralized veins occur at the sheared contact zone of the granodiorite with sedimentary rocks. The host rocks also carry disseminated mineralization.

A sample from a 2.5 centimetre wide quartz vein carrying arsenopyrite and sphalerite assayed 9.9 grams per tonne gold, 126.7 grams per tonne silver, 1.4 per cent zinc, 1.2 per cent lead and 2.4 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 13184).

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1984-334
EMPR ASS RPT *13184
GSC OF 2322 (#222)

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