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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-Jun-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI
Name AG, PB, SIS, SILVER BOX CAR Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L095
Status Showing NTS Map 093L14E, 093L15W
Latitude 054º 56' 30'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 01' 06'' Northing 6090097
Easting 626940
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The claims are underlain by a Late Cretaceous quartz monzonite stock which intrudes both Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics and Lower Cretaceous Skeena Group sediments. The contact aureole is intensely silicified and is weakly mineralized with pyrite.

Mineralization occurs in a small network of quartz veinlets which host pyrite and silver bearing galena. Old workings at the Cabin location show quartz veins with arsenopyrite. The network of quartz veins crosscut banded, slatey argillite and host minor occurrences of pyrite, galena, and possibly sphalerite.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL *1975-E143
EMPR ASS RPT *2657, 5504
EMPR MAP 69-1
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 181-193; 1988, pp. 195-208; 1991, pp. 93-101
EMPR PF (*Dickson, M.P. (1986): Report on the Silver Box Property, Reiseter Creek in Prospectus for Altec Development Corp., Jun.26, 1987)
GSC OF 351
GSC BULL 270

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