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File Created: 30-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  11-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I8 Au3
Name LUCKY SEVEN, A AND B, BEAVER, LUCKY STRIKE, THORN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I048
Status Past Producer NTS Map 103I08W
Latitude 054º 28' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 26' 46'' Northing 6036792
Easting 535890
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

Granodiorites of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex are cut by numerous quartz diorite and quartz-feldspar porphyry dykes. Quartz veins up to 2 metres in width, occur along a 600 metre, northeast trend. They are concentrated mainly along faults and along felsic dyke margins. The wallrock is often schistose and contains sericite within about 25 centimetres of the vein margins.

The quartz veins are comprised of off-white to pale grey, glassy to locally granular quartz. Terminated, subhedral quartz crystals often line occasional vugs within the veins. Limonitic iron oxides often coat fracture surfaces within the veins.

Sulphide minerals within the quartz veins are pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite(freibergite) and stephanite with rare visible gold occurring in the Lucky Seven vein. Pyrite is the most abundant sulphide and occurs as disseminations within the veins; the other sulphides usually occur as irregular, discontinuous masses The mineralization is often concentrated near the vein margins. Chalcopyrite occurs as irregular masses up to 2 centimetres in diameter occasionally with malachite and/or azurite. Galena is present in several of the veins and locally, has been partly altered to cerussite(?). Several quartz veins contain siderite and minor calcite.

Sample TT-9, from a quartz vein with galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite near the old adits assayed 7.16 grams per tonne gold, 38.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.246 per cent lead, 0.03 per cent zinc and 0.015 per cent copper. Another sample taken from the dump pile at an old open cut assayed 0.695 grams per tonne gold, 99.5 grams per tonne silver, 2.533 per cent lead, 0.035 per cent zinc and 0.161 per cent copper (Di Spirito, 1986).

About 460 metres to the southwest of the old workings, a sample from a 4 metre wide quartz vein assayed 6.7 grams per tonne gold, 1049 grams epr tonne silver, 0.094 per cent lead, 0.032 per cent zinc, 0.024 per cent copper and 0.0012 per cent molybdenite (Assessment Report 13140).

In 1918, about 91 tonnes of ore from the Lucky Seven claim group produced 6,221 grams of gold.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1914-114,115; *1918-51,52; 1920-40; 1921-45; 1923-49; 1924- 49; 1925-71; 1926-64,75; 1928-75; 1933-45
EMPR ASS RPT *13104, *14560, *15115
EMPR BULL 1, 1932, p. 30; 10
EMPR EXPL 1984-375; 1985-C373; 1986-C247
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
EMPR PF (*DiSpirito, F., et al. (1986): Geophysical, Geochemical and Geological Surveys on the Thorn Project in Prospectus for Castello Resources Ltd., Jul. 13, 1987
EMR MP CORPFILE (Seastar Resource Corporation)
GSC MAP 11-1956, 278A, 1136A , 1385A
GSC MEM *205, pp. 29-32; 329, p. 78
GSC P 36-17, pp. 51-54; 36-20, pp. 26,27
GSC SUM RPT 1925A pp. 117,118; 1926A, pp. 40,41

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