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File Created: 15-Jun-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  31-Aug-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name SKAY, NOKE, PURCELL BLOCK, EDDY NORTH, MT. BIGATTINI Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F050
Status Showing NTS Map 082F08E
Latitude 049º 29' 03'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 00' 39'' Northing 5481751
Easting 571646
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Skay occurrence is in the southwestern head waters of Wuha Creek, at an elevation of approximately 1940 metres.

The area is underlain by sedimentary rocks of the mid-Proterozoic Aldridge and Creston formations (Purcell Supergroup). These formations consist of siltstone, argillite and quartzite, regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies, and have been intruded by gabbro to diorite sills and dikes of the mid-Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions.

Locally, a 1.5-metre wide, silicified shear zone hosts narrow quartz veins with trace pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. The shear zone is hosted by quartzites, siltstones and argillites.

In 1983, the area was prospected and mapped as the Noke claims (Assessment Report 11465). In 1996, the area was prospected and sampled as the Skay 1-10 claims and previous sampling of the zone is reported to have yielded from 3 to 4 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 24458).

In 2012, PJX Resources Inc. had an airborne electromagnetic survey conducted over their Eddy North target area, part of their larger contiguous Purcell Block (Assessment Report 33667). Some 561.8 line-kilometres of survey data were recorded and compiled over the claim group. MINFILE occurrences encompassed by the survey included Running Wolf (082FNE059), Skay (082FSE175), Aug (082FSE176), Zeus (082GSW071), and Zeus (Gold Zone) (082GSW078).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 11465, *24458, 25135, 33667
EMPR GEOS MAP 1998-3
GSC MAP 15-1957; 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 820; 929; 2721

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