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MINFILE No 103J 022

File Created:	12-Sep-1986	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:	23-Dec-1988	by	Jonathan N. Rouse (JNR)

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		NMI
Name	WREN, CC	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103J008
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103J02E
Latitude	054º 00' 09''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	130º 35' 42''	Northing	5984977
		Easting	395459
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Copper	Deposit Types	I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Alexander, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Wren showing occurs on Porcher Island about 2.5 kilometres south of the Surf Point Mine (103J 017).

Three sub-parallel sheared quartz veins occur in Paleozoic- Mesozoic altered schists. Quartz diorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex has intruded the country rock to the immediate east. The veins strike east to northeast and dip 60 to 90 degrees north. Widths vary from 0.3 to 2 metres and lengths are up to 100 metres. Mineralization consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite and minor bornite. A selected sample assayed 79 grams per tonne gold and 21 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1933, pages 43,44).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1932-50; 1933-43,44; 1934-B9 EMPR BULL No. 3, 1932, p. 7 GSC MAP 12-1966; 1385A; 1472A GSC MEM 394 GSC P 66-33