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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Feb-2020 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104O9 Cr1
Name ICE LAKE, MYST METALS Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104O060
Status Showing NTS Map 104O09E
Latitude 059º 33' 28'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 00' 17'' Northing 6602593
Easting 443214
Commodities Chromium, Nickel Deposit Types M03 : Podiform chromite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cassiar, Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The Ice Lake occurrence is located near Chromite Mountain in the Cassiar Mountains of northern British Columbia, about 125 kilometres north of the community of Dease Lake.

Semi-massive chromite and plagioclase(?) occur within banded peridotite and dunite of the Mississippian Slide Mountain Complex. The chromite occurs within dunitic lenses and pods which are up to 15 centimetres thick and 15 metres long. The largest zone of chromite concentration is associated with dunite bands in the vicinity of Ice Lake where they trend about 110 degrees. The main occurrence is on the east side of Ice Lake and there is a second occurrence on the northwest side of the ridge northwest of the lake.

In 2015, a rock sample (tag number A21560) from a troctolite with chromite blebs and schlieren assayed 0.50 per cent chromium and 0.29 per cent nickel (Assessment Report 35654).

In 2015, Minfocus Exploration Corp. conducted limited prospecting and geological mapping which included the collection of specimens of the major hostrock types for multi-element assays (including nickel, platinum and palladium) and/or a limited petrographic study. The Myst Metals project area covers four mineral occurrences: Blue River Nickel (104P 001), Wolfe (104P 055), Anvil Chromite (104P 100), and Ice Lake (104O 018).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 35654
EMPR AR 1955-63A; 1956-64A
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 233-243
EMPR OF 1996-11; 2000-4
EMPR BULL 83
EMR MP CORPFILE (*Kelowna Mines Hedley Ltd.)
GSC P *64-48, p. 14
GSC MAP *17-1964; *18-1968
GSC OF 561; 2779
GSC MEM 319, pp. 69,110
Wolfe, W.J. (1969): The Blue River Ultramafic Intrusion

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