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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-May-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 094C5 Cu3
Name SARAH Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C041
Status Showing NTS Map 094C05W
Latitude 056º 29' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 58' 02'' Northing 6264192
Easting 317305
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Sarah occurrence is located at the west end of Sarah cirque, approximately 110 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

The property is underlain by andesite and basalt flows of the Upper Triassic Takla Group (Plughat Mountain Formation) which are intruded by the Croydon Creek stock, a Jurassic or older intrusion possibly related to the Late Triassic to Early Cretaceous Hogem Intrusive Complex. The stock varies from hornblende to quartz diorite and from fine-grained to pegmatitic, and is in turn cut by late aplite and quartz feldspar porphyry dikes.

Pyrite, chalcopyrite, and malachite with very minor bornite coat fractures in the mafic intrusion and are disseminated in clots of hornblende and pyroxene. Most assays over more than a metre are less than 0.1 per cent copper, however, one 30-centimetre-wide vein assayed 5.28 per cent copper, 7.5 grams per tonne gold and 55.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 4565). Epidote and chlorite are the main alteration minerals associated with the mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 4565, 30054, 35191
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 127-145; 1992, pp. 109-134
EMPR GEM 1973-398
EMPR OF 1992-11; 1993-2
EMPR PFD 673269
GSC MEM 274, p. 165
GBC 2021-01, pp. 105-120

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