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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Jul-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P13 Cu2
Name MORNING STAR COPPER, MORNING STAR, TOMMIGAN, SUNSHINE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 59' 07'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 51' 32'' Northing 6204774
Easting 446413
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Morning Star Copper showing is located near the headwaters of the north fork of Glacier Creek, 9.5 kilometres northeast of Stewart. A vein was periodically investigated in this area for copper between 1919 and 1923.

The showing consists of a 1.8 metre wide quartz-calcite vein, striking 040 degrees and dipping 40 degrees southeast, hosted in argillite (slate) of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). The vein has been traced along surface for approximately 210 metres and a parallel diorite dike forms the hangingwall. The vein contains abundant pyrite and chalcopyrite on the hangingwall side for a width of 0.6 metre and the remaining 1.2 metres on the footwall side is only sparsely pyritized.

In 2006, Teuton Resources Corp. completed 228.1 line-kilometres of a helicopter-borne AeroTEM II electromagentic and magnetic survey on their Silver Bell property which covers the showing area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1919-N70; *1923-A75
EMPR ASS RPT 28406
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-163; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 217, 218; 1986, pp. 81-102; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMR MP CORPFILE (Granby Mining Co. Ltd.; Sunshine Morning Star Mining Co. Ltd.)
GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 132
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996

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