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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P11 Mo1
Name LE ROY, LEROY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P054
Status Showing NTS Map 103P11W
Latitude 055º 35' 13'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 23' 48'' Northing 6160181
Easting 474998
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
K02 : Pb-Zn skarn
K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Le Roy showing is located on the east slope of Mount McGuire about 11.0 kilometres north-northeast of Alice Arm.

The showing consists of a flat-lying vein developed in skarn altered Upper Triassic Stuhini Group sediments. The quartz-albite-epidote-garnet skarn alteration is the result of the intrusion of four small, closely spaced, quartz monzonite stocks of the Eocene Alice Arm Plutonic Suite just west of the showing. These stocks host the Ajax molybdenum deposit (103P 223). The quartz vein is mineralized with pyrite, sphalerite, galena and tetrahedrite. A grab sample assayed from 23.37 per cent to 50.87 per cent zinc equivalent for gold, silver, lead and zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1926, page 81). In the vicinity, numerous small flat lying quartz veins and veinlets contain variable quantities of molybdenite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and rare chalcopyrite.

In 1926, significant surface work consisted of stripping and opencutting and a drift 30 metres long was driven on the Discovery No. 1 vein.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1926-A79,A81; *1927-C74; 1928-89
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Newmont, Geology Maps)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 70
GSC OF 864
EMPR PFD 18606

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