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File Created: 05-Nov-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  13-Jul-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name CHICKEN, KELLY CREEK, ZYM Mining Division Omineca, Skeena
BCGS Map 103I050
Status Showing NTS Map 103I08E
Latitude 054º 26' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 10' 16'' Northing 6033722
Easting 553747
Commodities Copper, Silver, Molybdenum, Gold Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Chicken showing, accessed by the Trapper Road, is located south of Zymoetz River, 29 kilometres east-southeast of Terrace B.C.

A granodiorite stock of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex is cut by andesite, rhyolite, and lamprophyre dykes and exhibits varying degrees of brecciation and chlorite-sericite and potash feldspar alteration.

Mineralization, observed over 30 metres, consists of chalcopyrite, pyrite, and bornite as disseminations, fracture fillings, and patches within the granodiorite. Minor molybdenite occurs on chloritic slip planes. A 2.1 metre sample assayed 3.38 per cent copper, 30.9 grams per tonne silver, and 0.34 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 2394).

In 2019, prospecting and geochemical work conducted on the Kelly Creek Property for R. Billingsley included sampling of four rocks from the Chicken showing, resulting in anomalous results for Ag (22.3 to 40.8 grams per tonne) and Cu (1.14 to 6.94 per cent) in three samples. Mineralization extends eastward over an approximately 75 metre wide zone for at least 420 metres to the East Chicken showing and may extend east-northeast to the Kelly Creek prospects (Minfile 103I 092) (Assessment Report 38949).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2394, 35194, *38949
EMPR GEM 1970-189-193
EMPR MAP 8; 69-1
EMPR OF 2007-4
EMPR P 2007-1 pp.149-162; 2008-1 pp. 159-174
GEOS BC RPT 2008-11, 2012-12
GSC MAP 11-1956; 278A; 1136A; 1385A
GSC MEM 329
CIM Spec. Vol. 15, Table 1 (by S.H. Pilcher and J.J. McDougall,
#109, 1976)
EMPR PFD 17964, 17965

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