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File Created: 25-Nov-2021 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  29-Jun-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name DXG, HOODOO, HOODOO CREEK Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092N033
Status Showing NTS Map 092N06W
Latitude 051º 20' 07'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 28' 37'' Northing 5690030
Easting 327455
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The DXG occurrence is located between Hoodoo Creek and Confederation Glacier, about 3 kilometres north of Knight Inlet. Mineralization at DXG is characterized by silver, gold, lead, zinc and/or copper mineralization associated with a variety of felsic to intermediate intrusions of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex.

A brown weathering, 5-centimetre-wide quartz-carbonate vein contains minor sphalerite disseminated along a quartz core. Foliated quartz diorite is altered for about 5 to 10 centimetres on either side and traceable for about 10 meters. A sample (DXG-82) taken of the vein graded 40 grams per tonne silver, 25 parts per billion gold, 0.54 per cent lead and greater than 1 per cent zinc, (Assessment Report 9710). Sample DXG-88, located about 120 metres west of sample DXG-82, was taken from a 15-centimetre-wide siliceous zone with minor chalcopyrite and chlorite on the contact of an andesite dike (presumably in foliated quartz diorite). Up to 1 per cent chalcopyrite occurs locally along quartz banding; and open spaces (from 5 to 10 per cent) occurred in the quartz. Earthy dark brown material (iron oxide?) was common in the vein. The sample graded greater than 1 per cent copper, 40 grams per tonne silver and 0.25 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 9710).

See Lancers Ridge (092N 076) and East 1 (092N 051) for a common work history of this area conducted mainly in 1980, 1981, 1988, 2009, and 2021.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 9508, *9710, 18202, 25067, 27198, 31228, 40016
EMPR EXPL 1980-278; 1981-97; 2002-29-40
GSC OF 1163

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