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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-May-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I3 Cu1
Name HC, BOLD, MCBRIDE RIVER, NO. 1, WEST, B4, SKY Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I005
Status Prospect NTS Map 104I03E
Latitude 058º 00' 31'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 02' 39'' Northing 6429670
Easting 497390
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The HC occurrence is located about 77 kilometres southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic-Lower Jurassic coarse bedded tuffs and agglomerates. The showing consists of a narrow shear vein varying in width from 0.6 to 1.5 metres. It strikes north, dips vertically and its length has been reported at up to 213 metres. A 1971 drillhole intersected coarse grained fragmental lava containing 6 millimetre-wide stringers of fine chalcocite with assays yielding 0.2 per cent copper and a trace of silver over 30 centimetres (Assessment Report 3237). A grab sample of chalcocite-rich vein material taken in 1971 yielded 3.26 per cent copper and 20.57 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Chisholm, 1971).

In 1983, Orsina Resources examined a showing in the same vicinity as the HC (West showing) consisting of bornite, chalcocite, malachite and chrysocolla hosted by vesicles and fractures in andesite flow tops (Assessment Report 12292, page 6). It is not clear whether the Orsina showing is the same as the HC. In 1969, Pelly Copper conducted a geological survey and first described the HC showing as the No. 1 zone. In 1971, Empire Metals covered this ground with the Bold 3 claim and prospected this showing as the West zone. They conducted an airborne magnetic survey over greater that 10,000 hectares and drilled one hole.

In 2008, a program of prospecting was carried out on the Sky claim held by D. McInnis.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM 1969-47; 1971-43
EMPR ASS RPT 1963, *3237, 3203, *12292, 30783
EMPR PF (in 104H 007 file - *Chisholm, E.O. (1971): Qualifying Report on The McBride River Project; Gifford, R.G. (1969): Report on the McBride River Project)
EMPR PFD 812291, 812292
GSC MAP 1957-9
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC MAP 29-1962; 1418A

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