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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Jul-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 093L15 Ag10
Name SILVER SADDLE, CRONIN Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L086
Status Showing NTS Map 093L15W
Latitude 054º 53' 40'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 49' 06'' Northing 6085225
Easting 639913
Commodities Copper, Lead, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The showing is a quartz vein which crosscuts Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics of the Telkwa Formation which is comprised of andesitic to rhyolitic flows, tuff and breccia.

The mineralized quartz vein strikes 030 degrees and dips gently northeast. At 2,027 metres in elevation, an open cut in the vein exposed quartz with galena, chalcopyrite and malachite staining. A selected sample assayed 48 grams per tonne gold, 1,200 grams per tonne silver, 0.5 per cent copper and 20 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929, page 167).

A few other mineralized quartz veins outcrop on this property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1925-138; *1926-132,134; *1929-167,168; 1930-141
EMPR MAP 69-1
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 181-193; 1988, pp. 195-208; 1991, pp. 93-101
GSC MAP 671A; 2048
GSC OF 351
GSC SUM RPT 1924A
GSC BULL 270
EMR MP CORPFILE (Sproatt Silver Mines Ltd.)

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