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File Created: 02-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name KIT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103I007
Status Showing NTS Map 103I02E
Latitude 054º 01' 34'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 36' 26'' Northing 5986498
Easting 525730
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold, Cadmium Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A barite-quartz system (eleven veins) is mineralized with galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite, within parallel fractures and fault zones. The veins strike 158 to 162 degrees and dip vertically. Host rocks are Cretaceous age, granodiorites and hornblende diorite of the Coast Plutonic Complex.

Vein 1 strikes 160 degrees and dips vertically. It is exposed for 61 metres long, 0.3 to 1.4 metres wide, and over 13.7 metres deep. The vein contains massive sulphide pods (2.5 to 5.0 centi- metres by 5 to 15 centimetres) of galena, sphalerite and minor chal- copyrite, with quartz and barite gangue. A 68 centimetre channel sample assayed 1.93 per cent lead, 1.85 per cent zinc and 4.1 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14322). A 13 centimetre channel sample assayed 3.64 per cent lead, 6.01 per cent zinc, 241.4 grams per tonne silver and 0.41 grams per tonne gold.

The remaining veins, which are smaller, are exposed along a creek for about 450 metres in an east-southeast direction. The average of several grab and channel samples assayed 2.94 per cent lead, 1.94 per cent zinc, 61.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.24 grams per tonne gold. One grab sample assayed 1.15 per cent cadmium (Assessment Report 14322).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1928-68,69
EMPR ASS RPT *14322
EMPR EXPL 1985-C371
EMPR MAP 8
GSC MAP 1136A; 1385A; 11-1956; 278A
GSC MEM 329
EMPR PFD 18125, 671191

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