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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-May-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 094C3 Pb2
Name REGENT, TENAKIHI CREEK Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C015
Status Showing NTS Map 094C03E
Latitude 056º 09' 25'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 05' 52'' Northing 6225529
Easting 369708
Commodities Lead, Silver Deposit Types J01 : Polymetallic manto Ag-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Regent lead-silver occurrence is located near the south end of a ridge east of the confluence of Tenakihi Creek and Osilinka River, 50 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

Hostrocks are dense, flat-lying limestone of the Neoproterozoic Espee Formation (Ingenika Group). An irregular, pod-shaped "vein" of solid, crystalline galena is present in the limestone hostrock, and is exposed for 1 metre, reaching a maximum width of 30 centimetres. The galena is concordant to bedding and weakly banded with alternating coarse and fine-grained material. The exposure is poor and badly weathered, however, boulders of massive galena up to 30 centimetres in size are common in the talus on the western side of the ridge. In 1954, grab samples of the galena yielded assays which averaged 83.5 per cent lead and 1576 grams per tonne silver (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 274, page 228).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1991, pp. 127-145; 1992, pp. 109-134
EMPR GEOS MAP 2001-4
EMPR OF 1992-11; 1993-2; 1995-6; 1996-19
EMPR PRELIM MAP 9
GSC MAP 1030A
GSC MEM *274, pp. 227-228
GSC OF 864
GBC 2021-01, pp. 105-120

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