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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Jun-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L15 Ag8
Name SILVER PICK, LITTLE JOE Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L086
Status Past Producer NTS Map 093L15W
Latitude 054º 52' 50'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 48' 16'' Northing 6083708
Easting 640852
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The claims are underlain by Upper Cretaceous Kasalka Group volcanics comprised of andesitic to dacitic flows, tuffs, rhyolitic tuff and breccia.

The main showing consists of quartz lenses and stringers hosting tetrahedrite, minor galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite. The zone strikes 295 degrees and dips 15 to 20 degrees north and is exposed for 40 metres. The quartz lenses range between 2.5 to 41 centimetres in width.

A crosscut adit driven 122 metres southwest of the main showing intersected a shear zone 0.3 metres wide, striking 032 degrees and dips 20 degrees west. Quartz veins, up to 5 centimetres wide, host disseminated tetrahedrite.

In 1926, a surface sample of vein material taken 61 metres above the main showing assayed 78.9 grams per tonne gold, 1440 grams per tonne silver and 3 per cent copper.

Approximately 400 metres east of the main showing, a vein 0.3 metres wide strikes 050 degrees and dips 20 degrees northwest. The quartz vein hosts limonite, tetrahedrite, and chalcopyrite with minor galena. In 1940, a picked sample by Lang assayed 34 grams per tonne gold and 1440 grams per tonne silver.

Between 1927 to 1938, 23 tonnes were mined and produced 466 grams gold, 209,230 grams silver, 886 kilograms copper, 420 kilograms lead and 836 kilograms zinc.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1922-106; 1923-111; *1924-97; 1925-138; *1926-134; 1927- 119; 1929-168; 1931-73; 1938-B36,C49
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 181-193; 1988, pp. 195-208; 1991, pp. 93-101
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC MAP 278A; 671A; 971A
GSC SUM RPT *1924A, p. 33
GSC P *40-18, p. 9
GSC OF 351
GSC BULL 270
EMR MP CORPFILE (Quyta Gold Mines Ltd.)

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