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File Created: 17-Apr-2012 by Nicole Barlow (NB)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MINNIE MOORE Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E018
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 08' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 32' 34'' Northing 5444165
Easting 387476
Commodities Silver, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Minnie Moore showing is located southwest of Wildgress Lake, approximately 11 kilometres northeast of Greenwood.

The area is underlain by greenstones, which are interbedded with tuffs, limestone and sharpstone conglomerates of the Triassic Brooklyn Group. These are intruded by granodiorite of the Jurassic Nelson intrusions and alkaline syenite of the Eocene Coryell intrusions.

Locally, there is a zone of faulting, diking and veining that measures, on the surface, up to 15 metres in width. Trenching has exposed a vein, ranging up to 8.5 metres in width, bounded on the east and west by stong, north-northeast trending, vertical to steeply west dipping faults. Eocene dikes within the wider fault zone are strongly argillic altered and locally cut by chalcedonic quartz veins.

Mineralization consists primarily of pyrite, with lesser chalcopyrite, sphalerite, galena, tetrahedrite, and ruby silver. Native gold has been seen in thin section and in hand specimen.

The showing was discovered in 2006, by Kettle River Resources Ltd., while working on their Bluebell property. A program of geochemical sampling, trenching and 10 diamond drill holes, totalling 1485 metres, was completed the next year.

In 2007, representative trench samples across the vein returned values up to 1469 grams per tonne silver and 3.95 grams per tonne gold over 4.2 metres (Assessment Report 29751).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 29751
Ball, M. (2017-01-26): Technical Report on the Greenwood Area Property
Cowley, P. (2017-06-02): Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment on the Greenwood Precious Metals Project

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