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MINFILE No  103I 179
File Created: 24-Nov-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103I9 Cu25
Name INDEPENDENT, RAINBOW Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I069
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09E
Latitude 054º 39' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 13' 26'' Northing 6057636
Easting 550061
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Pyrite, chalcopyrite and galena occur over a width of 1.5 metres in andesite of the Jurassic Hazelton Group. A typical sample assayed 4.0 per cent copper and 27.4 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1914).

On the adjacent Rainbow claim, located at a slightly higher elevation, stringers of chalcopyrite and bornite are reported to occur in fractured Hazelton Group rocks.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1914, p. 136,Map P120
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
GSC MAP 278A; 11-1956; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
GSC P 36-17
Dandy, L. (2012-03-01): Geological, Geochemical and Diamond Drilling Report on the Terrace Property
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