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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  02-Dec-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI 093L9 Ag2
Name SILVER CUP, CUP, GOLD Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L059
Status Past Producer NTS Map 093L09W
Latitude 054º 34' 43'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 15' 19'' Northing 6051365
Easting 677389
Commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The area is mainly underlain by rhyolite, andesite, and tuff of the Jurassic Hazelton Group. The original interest on the property was in two approximately parallel, flat dipping quartz veins about 210 metres apart. They vary from about 0.9 to 1.8 metres in width. A number of other small quartz and quartz-carbonate veins are also present. Mineralization includes tetrahedrite, freibergite, native silver, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite, and pyrite. Ankerite is believed to be the dominant carbonate and tourmaline is present in small amounts.

Recently, attention has been focused on highly bleached and altered zones containing sulphide mineralization as disseminations and veinlets which surround the veins. Some samples have yielded relatively high gold and silver values. Petrographically the alteration consists of carbonate (dolomite), muscovite, quartz, plus or minus illite with minor pyrite and tourmaline.

Diamond drilling in 1990 intersected mineralized quartz- carbonate veins where one hole analysed 0.32 gram per tonne gold, 78.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.19 per cent copper, 5.7 per cent lead and 2.7 per cent zinc over 0.2 metre of core (Assessment Report 20948, page 6).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1924-98; 1927-147; 1928-176; 1930-144; 1931-75; 1934-
C13; 1935-C39; *1937-C27-C32; 1938-B36,B38; 1939-56,58;
1941-44; 1942-31; 1952-95; 1953-42; 1965-90
EMPR ASS RPT 6771, 9938, 10656, 11840, 13174, 14361, *15063
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EMPR EXPL 1978-219; 1982-311; 1983-443; 1984-328; *1986-355; 1987-C304
EMPR MAP 69-1
EMPR OF 1994-14
EMPR PF (Miscellaneous property maps; Prospectors Report 2001-36 by James Hutter)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Bishop Resources Development Ltd.)
GSC BULL 270
GSC MAP 671A; 971A
GSC OF 351
GSC P 36-20, p. 153; 40-18, p. 14
GSC SUM RPT 1928A, p. 74
GCNL #114,#205, 1982; #182, 1983; #72,#112, 1984; #14, 1986
IPDM Dec. 1985
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