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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Feb-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104I6 Asb1
Name ASB, DHA, BYN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I044
Status Showing NTS Map 104I06W
Latitude 058º 29' 43'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 15' 32'' Northing 6483882
Easting 484909
Commodities Asbestos, Copper Deposit Types M06 : Ultramafic-hosted asbestos
M02 : Tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Cache Creek
Capsule Geology

The ASB occurrence is located approximately 45 kilometres east of the community of Dease Lake.

The showing area is underlain by Upper Mississippian to Permian peridotite of the Cache Creek Complex. The peridotite is frequently serpentinized.

Asbestos mineralization on the property consists of chrysotile in veinlets up to a few centimetres thick and picrolite veinlets. Scattered asbestos was observed over a distance of 5.6 kilometres along a northwest-trending zone.

An outcrop of peridotite in a creek is stained with malachite and contains fine-grained disseminated chalcopyrite and some pyrite. Little work is reported except for a magnetometer survey done in 1972 by owner H. Neugebauer.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM *1972-540
EMPR ASS RPT *3992
EMPR OF 1995-25; 1996-11
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27

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