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File Created: 20-Nov-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103I9 Cu28
Name IMPERIAL Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I070
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09E
Latitude 054º 39' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 08' 56'' Northing 6057074
Easting 554906
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Volcanics of the Jurassic Hazelton Group are cut by a diorite stock of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. Specularite and chalcopyrite mineralization, 2 metres wide, occurs along the contact between volcanic breccia and rhyolite, about 40 metres east of the intrusive.

A 1.8 metre sample assayed 3.5 per cent copper, 13.7 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1925-129
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
Dandy, L. (2012-03-01): Geological, Geochemical and Diamond Drilling Report on the Terrace Property

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