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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-May-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 104J1 Cu1
Name DISCO, CHOPPER, GALAXIE Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104J029
Status Showing NTS Map 104J01W
Latitude 058º 12' 07'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 18' 50'' Northing 6451946
Easting 422778
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Silver Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

A pit exposes some minor mineralization at the Disco showing, located 2 kilometres north of a major west tributary of Pallen Creek, about 33 kilometres south of Dease Lake.

The area is underlain by the Early to Middle Jurassic Pallen Creek pluton of the Jurassic and Triassic Hotailuh batholith. The pluton grades from a porphyritic quartz monzonite core to a granodiorite/diorite margin, and intrudes Upper Triassic Stuhini Group augite-plagioclase porphyry flows and tuff breccias.

In an area of weak pyritic alteration in granodiorite, pits expose quartz-filled fractures containing spots of chalcopyrite. Chalcopyrite and molybdenite also occurs on fractures in the volcanic rocks further west, close to the contact with the intrusion.

In 2011, Finsbury Exploration Ltd carried out exploration over the Property as part of a soil and silt sampling program over a much larger 168,983 hectare property area known as the Galaxie property.

In 2012, Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd, on the Galaxie property, conducted systematic soil and IP surveys over eight high-priority grids and two target areas identified by the 2011 stream sediment and soil geochemical results. This work included an IP survey over almost the entirety of title 512878 and the southeastern third of title 604847. A rock sample (966908) of chloritized andesite with disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite, taken near the southwest margin of the intrusive and associated with a porphyritic diorite dike, assayed 0.524 per cent copper and 5.8 grams per tonne silver (Bowen, B.K. (2013-04-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project).

Bibliography
EMPR PF (104J General File - Claim map 73M, Dec. 1970)
EMPR ASS RPT 3169, *8505
EMPR GEM 1970-48; *1971-48
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC OF 707; 2779
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 29-31; 80-1A, pp. 37-40
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A
GSC SUM RPT 1925, Part A, pp. 33A-99A
Bowen, B.K. (2012-07-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project
*Bowen, B.K. (2013-04-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project

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