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File Created: 04-Dec-2014 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  18-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name URC, ZYMO Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I090
Status Showing NTS Map 103I16E
Latitude 054º 50' 14'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 03' 26'' Northing 6077095
Easting 560550
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The larger Zymo property is underlain by clastic sediments of the Skeena (Lower Cretaceous), Bowser (Upper Jurassic) and Hazelton (Lower and/or Middle Jurassic) groups, which have been intruded by diorite and granite of the Nanika (Eocene) and Bulkley (Late Cretaceous) Intrusive Suites. Recent reports (Assessment Report 33546) have reported information that shows the URZ zone to be contained within the Middle Jurassic Smithers Formation (Hazelton Group).

The URC zone is located two kilometres southwest of Hobbes prospect and is defined by anomalous copper, gold, molybdenum, arsenic and gallium in rocks and soils and is underlain by coincidental high chargeability and an airborne magnetic high that runs along Red Canyon Creek. Outcrop is scarce in the area but chalcopyrite has been found in diorite dikes and mineralized float, running up to 0.31 per cent copper and 0.15 gram per tonne gold from altered intrusive float (Assessment Report 32725). In 2011, two hole were attempted on the URC Zone with one lost due to difficult ground conditions in overburden. ZY11 24 encountered unaltered intercalated fossiliferous silt and mudstones with abundant diagenitic pyrite.

Refer to Hobbes (093L 236) and FM (Zymo, Main zone) (093L 324) for further details of the Zymo property which includes the new URC.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1999-1-11, 19-31, 59-63
EMPR INF CIRC 2000-1, pp. 16, 17
EMPR OF 1994-14
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1996-14 by Robin Day; Prospectors Report 1998-2 by Robin Day)
GSC BULL 270
GSC OF 351
PR REL Eastfield Resources Ltd., Sep. 14, 2009; Oct.22, 2012
Johnston, R.J. (2019-03-15): Summary Report on the Zymo Property

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