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File Created: 23-Mar-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  27-Mar-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI 103P6,5 Pb5
Name ARBERARDER Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P043
Status Showing NTS Map 103P05E
Latitude 055º 28' 50'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 29' 58'' Northing 6148383
Easting 468434
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Arberarder occurrence is situated 700 metres west-southwest of the approximate centre of the Alice Arm townsite.

The area west and northwest of Alice Arm is underlain by Middle to Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group sediments. The sediments dip moderately to steeply southwest and northeast as a result of being deformed into closely spaced northwest-trending folds.

The Arberarder showing comprises a 0.76 metre wide quartz vein that strikes 028 degrees and dips 65 degrees west. The vein is hosted in argillite that contains pyritic bands up to 0.36 metre wide. The vein is mineralized with sparse pyrite and chalcopyrite. About 46 metres to the west is an outcrop showing 30 centimetres of barren-looking quartz with a well defined hangingwall striking 060 degrees, dipping 70 degrees northerly. If it continues it should intersect the former vein.

The Arberarder veins may be the south extension of the Independent vein (103P 131) located 420 metres to the north.

In 1916, the Arberarder claim was owned by A. McPhail.

In 2007 the SNL Enterprises Ltd. exploration program on their Inlet property, north of Alice Arm, consisted of gathering 56 silt samples, 2 heavy mineral samples and 31 rock samples (Assessment Report 30177).

In 2017 an airborne magnetometer survey and geological interpretation were completed for Granby Gold Ltd. on their Tidewater property, north of Alice Arm. In the northeast corner of the property, precious metal occurrences (Wolf, Independent, Arberarder) may be associated with a SSW-trending magnetic high and an open fold structure in Salmon River sediments. Localization of mineralization at intersection of SSW and ESE fractures is a possibility (Assessment Report 36830).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1916-K64
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR ASS RPT 29106, 30177, 36830
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 307A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 3272

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