MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 103B 071

File Created:	28-Oct-1988	by	Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)
Last Edit:	10-Mar-1989	by	Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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		NMI
Name	ARCHIE (CAMP CREEK), ARCHIE, CAMP CREEK	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103B025
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103B06E
Latitude	052º 17' 59''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	131º 09' 56''	Northing	5796583
		Easting	352337
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Wrangell

Capsule Geology

The area is predominantly underlain by limestones and argillites of the Jurassic to Triassic Kunga Group. These rocks are intruded by felsic sills related to the Middle to Late Jurassic Burnaby Island Plutonic Suite. Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, Karmutsen volcanics, conformably underlie the Kunga limestones.

Skarns occur near the base of Camp Creek. About 350 metres west of the creek are epidote-pyrite-pyrrhotite skarns, plus ubiquitous calc-silicate minerals and minor chalcopyrite. No anomalous values of gold or arsenic were reported.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT 8197, 8714, *10198, 16225, 19026 EMPR BULL 54 EMPR EXPL 1980-365; 1981-231; 1987-C346 GSC MAP 1385A GSC P 88-1E, pp. 213-216, 221-227; 89-1H, pp. 95-112; 90-10, pp. 59-87; 91-1A, pp. 383-391 MIN REV Mar./Apr., 1988, pp. 19-24 EMPR PFD 840917, 861034