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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104A4 Cu14
Name OLGA, HILL 60 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A001
Status Prospect NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 01' 26'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 50' 53'' Northing 6209063
Easting 447142
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Olga showing is located on the north side of Bitter Creek, about 1 kilometre west of the confluence with Radio Creek.

The area is underlain by north striking, west-dipping argillites and quartzites of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group) (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 175; Bulletin 63).

A northeast trending, northwest-dipping vein of quartz and brecciated argillite crosscuts the strike of the rocks at a low angle. The vein averages 0.6 metre wide and has been traced for 76 metres on surface; it is exposed over a length of about 46 metres in the adit. The vein is mostly barren except for small shoots of chalcopyrite. One lens of nearly pure chalcopyrite is up to 7.6 metres long and 20 centimetres wide.

Opencuts and a 91 metre long adit were emplaced before 1910. That year the Olga claim group was owned by Olga Mines Limited. Exploration work comprised 18 metres of tunnelling. No further work has been reported on the showing.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1905-80; 1910-64,79; 1914-512; 1925-84
EMPR ASS RPT 20379
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR EXPL 1979-273
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP 28A; *216A; *217A; 307A; *315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 32, p. 58; 159, p. 34; 175, p. 120
GSC OF 2582; 2779

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