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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-Aug-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L14 Ag10
Name PATRIOTIC (L.3311), RED CROSS (L.3310), BOWL (L.3315) Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L085
Status Showing NTS Map 093L14E
Latitude 054º 53' 10'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 10' 56'' Northing 6083631
Easting 616603
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Lot 3311 is underlain Lower Cretaceous Skeena Group sediments (Kitsun Creek Formation) comprised of andesitic tuff, greywacke, shale and conglomerate. The Skeena Group is intruded by a Late Cretaceous to Tertiary porphyry stock and associated dikes.

Locally, the property is underlain by schists which are intruded by a wide, fine-grained quartz porphyry dike. Mineralization occurs in a fracture zone in the schist about 15 metres from the dike and roughly paralleling it. Mineralization occurs as fissure vein in- fillings in the schist, varying from 0.3 to 1.2 metres in width and striking 100 degrees. Sulphide mineralization consists of sphal- erite, galena, jamesonite with minor tetrahedrite and pyrite. The galena and tetrahedrite carry good silver values.

In 1918, a sample across 0.6 metres in an open cut assayed trace gold, 761.1 grams per tonne silver, 2 per cent lead, and 34.8 per cent zinc. A selected sample of the mineralization assayed 0.68 grams per tonne gold, 4278.8 grams per tonne silver, 46 per cent lead, and 20.4 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1918, page 118).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1918-118; 1924-366
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 195-208; 1991, pp. 93-101
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC OF 351
GSC P 44-23
GSC BULL 270

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