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File Created: 22-Apr-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  16-Oct-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name CABINET CREEK, EL TORO, RAINBOW Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L055
Status Showing NTS Map 093L11E
Latitude 054º 29' 53'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 09' 45'' Northing 6040500
Easting 619000
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The area of the Cabinet Creek occurrence is underlain by a large stock of the Bulkley Plutonic Suite (Sunsets Stock) emplaced in volcanic rock of the Telkwa Formation, Hazelton Group.

In 1988, a BC Geological Survey crew conducted geological mapping in the Webster Creek and Cabinet Creek areas. During this program a sample was taken in the Cabinet Creek headwaters and designated Map No.24 (MacIntyre et al., Open File 1989-16). The sample assayed 23.96 grams per tonne gold, 930 grams per tonne silver, 12.9 per cent copper, 0.079 per cent zinc and 0.04 per cent lead (Open File 1989-16).

The following general description was taken from Macyntyre et al. (Fieldwork 1988) and describes the area of Sample 24.

"In the headwaters of Webster creek, a large stock of granodiorite of probable Late Cretaceous age [Bulkley Plutonic Suite] intrudes basaltic flows of the upper Telkwa Formation [Hazelton Group]. A zone of disseminated pyrite and magnetite with associated propylitic alteration is superimposed on hornfelsed volcanic rocks surrounding the stock. A stockwork vein system containing pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and molybdenite is locally present within the pyrite-magnetite zone. High-grade pods of pyrite, chalcopyrite, and magnetite in a gangue of altered country frock, quartz, and epidote, occur locally along flow contacts in the area north of the stock. The strongest mineralization appears to be near dike contacts. Also present are calcite and quartz stringers that carry malachite, bornite, chalcopyrite, azurite, chalcocite, tetrahedrite, hematite and minor disseminated specularite. These showings crosscut faults and shear; in dark green to maroon basalt of the Telkwa Formation. In the Cabinet Creek area, quartz veins and isolated pods containing high-grade concentrations of chalcopyrite, bornite and tetrahedrite with minor specularite and galena, cut basaltic flows of the Telkwa Formation."

Refer also to King (093L 041) for general information on the El Toro property, a large property that was worked by of Lions Gate Energy Inc from 2007 to present (2015).

Refer to Fly (093L 045) for related details.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *21765, 29206, 29456, 30188, *30731, 30982, *31515, 33275, 34445
EMPR FIELDWORK *1988, pp. 195-208
EMPR OF *1989-16; 1990-05; 1993-21
EMPR P 1990-2
EMPR MAP 69-1
GSC OF 351
EMPR PFD 681459, 681460

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