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File Created: 14-Dec-2001 by Robert (Bob) A. Lane (RAL)
Last Edit:  14-Dec-2001 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name GM Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093H021
Status Showing NTS Map 093H04W, 093H05W
Latitude 053º 14' 58'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 121º 54' 03'' Northing 5900590
Easting 573340
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Barkerville
Capsule Geology

The GM occurrence was discovered by partners Mel Zeiler and Gary Toop by prospecting in 2000.

The GM area is underlain by rocks of the Hadrynian or Paleozoic Snowshoe Group, Barkerville Terrane. The rocks are comprised of quartz mica schist and micaceous quartzites, pyritiferous argillite and phyllites. The showing comprises a 1 metre wide quartz-carbonate vein and stockwork zone exposed in two excavator trenches spaced 40 metres apart. Mineralization consists of disseminated to locally massive galena and minor pyrite, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. Galena is also disseminated in siliceous bands within crenulated to gently folded metasediments adjacent to the vein structure, and exposed in a road cut below the trenches. The vein is subvertical and has a strike of about 140 degrees.

A grab sample of quartz vein with 3 to 4 per cent galena assayed: 0.79 gram per tonne gold, 134.6 gram per tonne silver and greater than 1 per cent lead (Personal Communication, Robert Lane, 2001).

Bibliography
EM EXPL 1999-65-77
GSC MAP 1424A; 1635A
GSC MEMOIR 421

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