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File Created: 11-Aug-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  15-Dec-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name NUMBER 1 SUE, SUE, BARB Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093E055
Status Showing NTS Map 093E11E
Latitude 053º 36' 22'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 07' 13'' Northing 5941330
Easting 624375
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Number 1 Sue showing is largely underlain by volcaniclastic and sedimentary rock of the Middle Jurassic Smithers Formation, Hazelton Group. Quartz dioritic stocks, dikes and plugs of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Plutonic Suite and Eocene felsitic intrusive rocks intrude the strata.

This Number 1 Sue showing represents the original discovery showing (1982) that lead to the staking of the claims. It comprises dissemination and veinlets of fine-grained arsenopyrite in a very fine-grained cherty to chalcedonic quartz vein. It is set in a northwest trending shear zone located in an avalanche gulley covered by snow for most of the year. The vein is up to one metre width where exposed. Lower in the gulley, near the tree-line, galena was noted in kaolinitic altered volcanic sandstones. Pyrite and minor sphalerite are associated with both the galena and arsenopyrite. Grabs from the area gave gold values to 1.1 grams per tonne and silver values of up to 40 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 13043).

Refer to Barb (093E 109) for common details of the Barb and Sue claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 11512, *13043
EMPR BULL 75
EMPR EXPL 1982-282; 1983-409
EMPR FIELDWORK 1986, pp. 171-179
EMPR OF 1987-4; 1994-14
GSC MAP 367A; 1064A
GSC MEM 299
GSC OF 708
GSC P 72-1A; 79-1A
GSC SUM RPT 1924, Part A

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