Geologic description
The country rocks in the area of the Top prospect are pelitic metasedimentary and subordinate andesitic metavolcanic strata of the Jurassic or older Mesozoic Hazelton Group; the Triassic Texas Creek Granodiorite, which underlies and locally intrudes the Hazelton; and the Eocene Hyder Quartz Monzonite, which intrudes the Hazelton and Texas Creek rocks (Smith, 1977; Koch, 1996). According to Maas and others (1995, p. 254, 258), the deposit consists of disseminated and semi-massive pyrite, sphalerite, and tetrahedrite, and a quartz-sulfide vein. The deposit is hosted in Hazelton volcanic rocks and has been exposed for a length of about 450 feet. Maas and others (p. 254) suggest that this deposit is Jurassic in age, based on similarities in mineralogy, structural setting, and hostrock, to isotopically-dated Jurassic deposits elsewhere in the Hyder district (for example, see BC065, BC067). If so, the deposit is contemporaneous, at least in part, with island-arc volcanism in Hazelton time (Alldrick, 1993). |
Age of mineralization |
Maas and others (1995, p. 254) suggest that this deposit is Jurassic in age, based on similarities in mineralogy, structural setting, and hostrock, to isotopically-dated Jurassic deposits elsewhere in the Hyder district (for example, see BC065, BC067). If so, the deposit is contemporaneous, at least in part, with island-arc volcanism in Hazelton time (Alldrick, 1993). |