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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082E2 Cu6
Name AH THERE (L.1960), GREYHOUND Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E007
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 05' 54'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 42' 10'' Northing 5439783
Easting 375702
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
K04 : Au skarn
K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Ah There (Lot 1960) and Greyhound (082ESE050) claims are centred just northwest of the confluence of Motherlode and Greyhound creeks and approximately 2.5 kilometres northwest of Greenwood. The adjoining claims are readily accessible from the Motherlode Creek road. The Mother Lode (082ESE034) and Sunset (082ESE035) claims lie 1700 metres to the northwest.

The property is underlain by skarnified units of the Triassic Brooklyn Group and granodiorite which forms the west boundary of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Greenwood pluton. Pulaskite dikes, feeders to the Eocene Marron volcanic rocks, are common.

Mineralization consists of pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, magnetite and specularite, occurring on fractures and interstitially near the contact of the carbonate rocks, skarn and the granodiorite.

Work began on Ah There claim in about 1900 with the sinking of a 45-metre deep shaft. This activity resulted in a trial shipment of 24 tonnes of ore in 1903 by McRae Copper Mines, Limited. The claim was Crown granted to G.D. Lyson in 1903 and again to C. McRae in 1921. Except for a number of brief exploration projects, such as some diamond drilling in 1912, 1916 and 1956, the property remained more or less dormant until open pit mining on the Greyhound claim began in 1969 and continued through 1971. In 1973, Mascot Mines & Petroleum Limited drilled 162 metres in 5 percussion holes on the Ah There claim. During 2008 through 2012, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. completed programs of rock and soil sampling, geological mapping, ground geophysical surveys and diamond drilling on the area as the Motherlode portion of the Greenwood property.

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1900-876; 1901-1056; 1903-166,170,246; 1921-347; 1929-257
EMPR ASS RPT 2897, 2845, 881, 5023
EMPR BULL 101, p. 237
EMPR GEM 1969-307; 1970-429; 1971-380; 1973-38; 1974-35
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25
EMPR P 1989-3, pp. 41-43, 99; 1986-2
EMPR PF (GREENWOOD AREA,GALLOWAY,1927; Salamet Mines Ltd. (circa
1956): Diamond Drill Hole plan, in 082ESE050))
EMPR PRELIM MAP 59
GSC MAP 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1969
GSC P 67-42; 79-29
Dufresne, M. (2013-11-10): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project
Dufresne, M. (2013-11-25): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project

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