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File Created: 29-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I8 Cu4
Name LA LIBERTAD, THORN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I048
Status Showing NTS Map 103I08W
Latitude 054º 29' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 26' 36'' Northing 6038648
Easting 536056
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Granodiorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex is cut by quartz-feldspar porphyry and later quartz diorite and lamprophyre. The lamprophyre dykes are cut by two parallel faults, 160 metres apart, striking 056 degrees and dipping 60 to 70 degrees southeast. Quartz veins, 0.2 to 1.0 metres wide, follow the faults and are mineralized with small seams of chalcopyrite, pyrite, galena, tetrahedrite and sphalerite. The veins are up to 270 metres long and some are carbonated and contain siderite. A grab sample assayed 66 grams per tonne gold and 17 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930). A sample of a quartz vein in the area assayed 0.07 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 13104).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-77,78; *1930-78
EMPR ASS RPT 13104, 14560, 15115
EMPR BULL 1, 1932, pp. 22,30
EMPR EXPL 1984-375; 1985-C373; 1986-C427
EMPR MAP 69-1; 8
EMPR PF (*DiSpirito, F. et al (1986): Geological, Geochemical and Geological Surveys on the Thorn Project, in Prospectus for Castello Resources Ltd., July 13, 1987)
GSC MAP 1136A; 278A; 11-1956; 1385A
GSC MEM *205, pp. 26,27; 329, p. 78
GSC P 36-17, p. 45
GSC SUM RPT 1925A, pp.117A-118A
N MINER Sept. 4, 1989

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