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File Created: 21-Apr-1986 by Dani J. Alldrick (DJA)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name MAUD MCPHEE (L. 3817), MAUDE MCPHEE, KITSAULT, SILVER DREAM Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P063
Status Showing NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 41' 18'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 31' 15'' Northing 6171516
Easting 467256
Commodities Silver, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Maude McPhee showing is situated on the east bank of Evindsen Creek, 0.5 kilometre west of the Kitsault River, 23 kilometres north of Alice Arm. This showing was explored in the past by an adit and was rediscovered by Dolly Varden Minerals in 1986.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks belonging to the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. The sequence is folded into a doubly plunging, north-northwest trending syncline (the Kitsault River syncline) and has been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The Maude McPhee showing comprises a 23 metre long, 3 metre wide vein striking north-northwest and dipping steeply northeast. The vein is hosted in sericitized Hazelton Group andesite. Mineralization consists of pyrite with minor galena and sphalerite in quartz gangue. A 3.0 metre chip sample analysed 162 grams per tonne silver and 0.116 per cent zinc, and a second 2.0 metre chip sample assayed 18.0 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 15371, page 22).

In 1986, a field program of geological mapping and geochemical exploration was carried out by Dolly Varden Minerals Inc. on the Silver Dream claim group. A total of 57 rock chip samples, 31 stream sediment samples and 102 soil samples were collected and analysed.

During 2010 through 2019, Dolly Silver Corporation explored the area as apart of the Dolly Varden property. A complete property exploration history can be found at the Dolly Varden (MINFILE 103P 188) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-K80; 1916-K77,K539
EMPR ASS RPT 2887, *15371, 21562
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224,327-330; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Mitchell, M.A. (1973): Report)
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
Devlin, B.D. (1987): Geology and Genesis of the Dolly Varden Silver Camp Alice Arm Area, Northwestern British Columbia, University of British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis
Garrow, T. (2011-09-05): Technical Report - Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-03-18): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-05-01): Amended 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-09-30): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property

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