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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Oct-1992 by Dave Nelles (DMN)

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NMI 093N11 Hg7
Name BRON, HOUSTON SOUTH Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093N054
Status Showing NTS Map 093N11W
Latitude 055º 33' 08'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 22' 40'' Northing 6158812
Easting 350009
Commodities Mercury Deposit Types E01 : Almaden Hg
I08 : Silica-Hg carbonate
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The Bron occurrence is situated near the divide between Silver and West Kwanika creeks, south of the Bralorne Takla mercury mine (093N 008), approximately 38 kilometres east-northeast of Takla Landing.

The area is underlain by a north-northwest striking, steeply west-dipping sequence of interbedded limestone and argillaceous and chloritic schist assigned to the Carboniferous to Jurassic Cache Creek Complex. These rocks occur within and west of the Pinchi fault zone, a major structural feature traversing the area from north to south. Grey, massive limestone is the most common rock type observed in the area of the occurrence, and it is invariably brecciated and/or dolomitized. North-northwest striking, steeply west-dipping schist and rusty coloured, slaty siltstone were observed to be interbedded with limestone locally.

Early reports (1944) describe a zone of cinnabar mineralization three metres wide on the west fork of Kwanika Creek. The cinnabar reportedly occurred as minute crystals in brecciated limestone and as film on slip planes. Diamond drilling undertaken in 1970, however, failed to intersect significant mineralization, partly due to the deep overburden overlying the area.

No recent information concerning this occurrence is available.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1968-148
EMPR ASS RPT 1755
EMPR GEM 1969-105; 1970-182
EMPR OF 2000-33
EMPR PF (Miscellaneous claim map)
GSC MAP 844A; 907A; 971A; 1424A
GSC MEM 252, p. 160
GSC P 42-7; *44-5, p. 10; 45-6
EMPR PFD 16233, 16234, 16235

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