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File Created: 12-Jun-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2019 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MS PEG Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F070
Status Showing NTS Map 082F09E
Latitude 049º 38' 44'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 05' 11'' Northing 5499624
Easting 565955
Commodities Gold, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The MS Peg occurrence is located on a southeast facing slope, west of Matthew Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1200 metres.

The area is underlain by argillites and quartzites of the middle Proterozoic Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup). These have been intruded by gabbro sills and dikes of the middle Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions.

Locally, visible gold mineralization is hosted by quartz veins in a north west- trending shear breccia zone over widths of 1.5 to 2.5 metres. The mineralization is associated with limonite and tourmaline near a pegmatite dike. In 2010, two rock samples (CK09-140 and 141) assayed 5.64 and 21.98 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 31614).

Another zone of mineralization, located approximately 600 metres to the northeast, consists of a metabasite(?) with narrow quartz veins and boudins hosting chalcopyrite, malachite and limonite. In 2010, three rock samples (CK09-153 to 155) assayed from 0.134 to 0.434 per cent copper and 1.1 to 3.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 31614). In 2014, a rock sample (CK14-213) assayed 0.111 per cent copper (Assessment Report 34960).

In 2009 and 2010, Kootenay Gold prospected the area as the MS Peg property and collected rock samples. In 2014, the area was prospected by C. Kennedy, who collected rock samples.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 31009, *31614, *34960
GSC MAP 52-15A
GSC P 52-15; 38-17, p. 5; 37-27, p. 25

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