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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Jun-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P13 W1
Name LOUISE, DOT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W, 104A04W
Latitude 055º 58' 47'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 58' 10'' Northing 6204247
Easting 439507
Commodities Tungsten Deposit Types K05 : W skarn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Louise showing is located on the west side of Bear River, 5.0 kilometres north-northeast of Stewart.

The showing comprises tungsten mineralization hosted in calcsilicate beds in a sequence of tuffs and clastics of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group). These have been contact metamorphosed to mica schists. These beds lie about 150 metres north of a large body of granite of the Eocene Hyder pluton (Coast Plutonic Complex), strike north and dip 25 to 40 degrees west.

Tungsten mineralization is contained in a 0.6 to 1.8 metre wide calcsilicate bed, traced for 46 metres, and in a series of calcsilicate lenses up to 0.6 metre wide and 1.0 metre in length. These contain scheelite in a gangue of calcium silicates and minor calcite. Grab samples of higher grade material from the lenses have assayed 0.04 per cent and 0.27 per cent tungstic oxide (WO3) (Bulletin 10, page 54).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 21075
EMPR BULL *10(Rev.), pp. 53,54; 58; 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-163; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 217, 218; 1986, pp. 93-102; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1991-17; 1994-14
EMPR PF (*Mathews, W.H. (1943): Reports)
GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996

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