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MINFILE No 093F 128

File Created:	20-Apr-2021	by	Nicole Barlow (NB)
Last Edit:	21-Apr-2021	by	Nicole Barlow (NB)

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		NMI
Name	COCONUT SOUTHWEST, COCONUT	Mining Division	Omineca
		BCGS Map	093F094
Status	Showing	NTS Map	093F14W
Latitude	053º 56' 36''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	125º 19' 12''	Northing	5979702
		Easting	347730
Commodities	Gold, Silver	Deposit Types	H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Stikine

Capsule Geology

The Coconut Southwest occurrence is located approximately 500 metres north of the easternmost edge of Island Lake.

The property containing the occurrence is underlain by rhyolite and felsic volcanic rocks of the Eocene to Oligocene Nechako Plateau Group, Ootsa Lake Formation.

Mineralization is observed in varying outcrops described as quartz breccia with barite limonite, barite and quartz breccia with limonite boxwork, and epidote-altered volcanic breccia cut by a limonite zone with narrow open-space quartz vein stockworks. Mineralization is observed in a northeast-trending zone over an approximately 600-metre area.

Work History

In the mid-1980s, Riocanex completed an exploration program on the property containing the occurrence. Soil geochemical sampling was completed with anomalous results, but no bedrock outcrop was identified.

In 2014, Kootenay Silver Inc. conducted a rock geochemical survey on the property containing the occurrence. Highlighted results on the Coconut Southwest occurrence included sample TK14-013, which graded 0.13 grams per tonne gold and 42.7 grams per tonne silver, and sample TK14-016, which graded 1272 grams per tonne silver and 0.02 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 35455).

In 2017, Kootenay Silver Inc. conducted a soil geochemical survey over the property containing the occurrence. Anomalous but economically weak elemental values were reported.

In 2019, Kootenay Silver Inc. conducted a rock geochemistry program on the property taking grab samples from float and outcrop. Significant mineralization was observed on the Coconut Southwest occurrence with notable grades of 143 grams per tonne silver and 0.72 grams per tonne gold in sample TK19-31; 217 grams per tonne silver and 0.02 grams per tonne gold in sample TK19-32; 479 grams per tonne silver and 0.02 grams per tonne gold in sample TK19-28 and 26.80 grams per tonne gold and 15.0 grams per tonne silver in quartz barite breccia from sample SK19-49 (Assessment Report 38631). Additional sampling was done in 2021 (Assessment Report 39481).


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT 11519, 35455, 36812, 38631, *39481 EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-481; 1993, pp. 9-14, 39-44; 1994, pp. 167-170, 193-197; 2002, pp. 165-174 EMPR OF 1994-19 GSC MAP 1131A; 1424A GSC MEM 324, p. 54 GSC P 90-1F, pp. 115-120