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File Created: 22-Jul-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name EAST PLATEAU, ECSTALL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H083
Status Showing NTS Map 103H14W
Latitude 053º 53' 04'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 29' 39'' Northing 5970790
Easting 467525
Commodities Zinc, Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Nisling, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The East Plateau showing is located on a ridge east of Ecstall River and west of Johnston Lake, 72 kilometres southeast of Prince Rupert and 60 kilometres southwest of Kitimat.

The showing is one of a cluster of showings around the Ecstall deposit (103H 011). The north-northwest trending Ecstall Pendant, a metasedimentary-metavolcanic belt within the Central Gneiss Complex, is flanked by granodiorite of the Coast Range Intrusive Complex.

A heavily pyritized, sericitic shear zone, 1.0 metre wide, occurs in chlorite schist. The shear zone strikes 175 degrees and dips 85 degrees west and contains trace amounts of sphalerite. A sample assayed 0.184 per cent zinc and 0.032 per cent copper (Assessment Report 15488).

This prospect crops out 930 metres northeast of the north end of the North Lens of the Ecstall deposit (103H 011), at an elevation of 665 metres (Hassard et al., 1987b, p.28 and Figure 6). Exposed in a west-southwest-draining creek, a one metre wide sericitic shear zone strikes parallel to the Ecstall massive sulphide lenses and hosts 5 per cent pyrite and trace disseminated sphalerite. A single grab sample assayed 0.184 per cent zinc and 0.032 per cent copper (Hassard et al., 1987b). Host rocks to the pyrite-sericite schist are quartz-chlorite schists. This prospect has not been examined in the field.

The East Plateau showing was included in the 2019 airborne VTEM survey over Kingfisher Resources Ltd.'s Ecstall property. The airborne survey was aimed at detection of structures and/or conductors related to potential Cu-Au-Zn-Ag VMS-style mineralization (Assessment Report 39155).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *15488, *15756, 38705, 39478
EMPR EXPL 1987-C355
EMPR FIELDWORK 1999, pp. 249-265; 2000, pp. 279-306; 2001, pp. 151-170
EMPR OF 1999-2; 2002-03
EMPR PFD 752725
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A; 1868A
GSC P 70-41
Dyakowski, C. (2021-01-27): Technical Report on the Ecstall Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia

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