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File Created: 11-Jun-1986 by Gary R. Foye (GRF)
Last Edit:  20-Apr-2008 by Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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Name POOR SAM (DICK), DICK, SMABY, THUMB PEAK Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 093E025
Status Showing NTS Map 093E03E
Latitude 053º 13' 06'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 09' 08'' Northing 5898152
Easting 623373
Commodities Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

A continuous stratified section of rhyolite and dacite tuffs trends northwesterly-southeasterly across the property. A pyritic rhyolite tuff horizon is well foliated, dips steeply to the south- west and has undergone low-grade metamorphism to a quartz-sericite- schist. Dacite tuffs, flows and plagioclase porphyries occur above and below the rhyolitic tuff horizon. The dacite has undergone mild to moderate chlorite and epidote alteration and local silicification. The Dick Showing consists of massive magnetite and pyrite beds interbedded with semi-massive magnetite and pyrite lenses in dacite tuff on the footwall side of the rhyolitic tuff. Mineralized beds are 0.3 to 1.0 metres thick. The mineralization carries significant copper values. Both the rhyolite tuff and dacite tuff are cut by small quartz-pyrite plus or minus chalcopyrite veins with magnetite and epidote also being common vein constituents in the dacite tuff.

In 1998 Sand River Resources drilled the Dick showing hoping to intersect a composite zone of narrow less than 50 centimetre bands of massive to semi massive sphalerite, magnetite and pyrite in a chlorite and epidote bearing altered andesite tuff. However the hole failed to intersect the horizon - so potential remains uncertain.

The Smaby 1-2 claims are held in good standing until April 10, 2005, and the Smaby 3-5 claims are held in good standing until February 4, 2005, by Hans Smit of Telkwa.

Bibliography
EI EXPL 1995-37
EMPR ASS RPT 14598, 22023, 22849, 23415, 23661
EMPR OF 1999-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 1064A
GSC MEM 299
GSC OF 708

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