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File Created: 30-Jul-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-Feb-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103G8 Cu1
Name DONALDSON CREEK, HENRIETTA (L.109), MARGARET (L.110) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103G050
Status Showing NTS Map 103G08E
Latitude 053º 28' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 02' 46'' Northing 5924973
Easting 430560
Commodities Copper, Silver, Tungsten Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Alexander, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

An 18 by 6 metre pod of massive sulphide is enclosed by a vertical dipping, 4 to 25 metre wide milky quartz vein, which strikes 028 degrees for 50 metres. The quartz is barren and appears to be a replacement of a large inclusion of metasediments within quartz diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The Permian (?) or older metasediments are a segment of a northwest trending belt of laminated micaceous quartzite and crystalline limestone, marble, and schist.

The massive sulphide pod is a mineral assemblage of mainly magnetite and pyrrhotite with lesser amounts of chalcopyrite and pyrite and very minor scheelite. Actinolite, quartz, and calcite constitute the gangue material. A 2.3 metre chip sample assayed 1.05 per cent copper and 4.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11176). A selected bulk sample taken in 1971 assayed 0.60 per cent copper and 1.12 per cent WO3 (Assessment Report 11176).

In 1968 a large chip sample was collected and yielded 0.58 per cent copper with traces of gold, silver and nickel (National Mineral Inventory Card 103G8 Cu1).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1907-216; 1930-A68
EMPR ASS RPT *11176
EMPR EXPL 1982-368
EMPR OF 1991-17; 2004-2
GSC MAP 23-1970
GSC P *70-41, pp. 48,49
GCNL #152, 1982

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