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File Created: 29-Apr-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FISHER Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P073
Status Showing NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 42' 25'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 32' 29'' Northing 6173597
Easting 465980
Commodities Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Fisher showing is located 2.5 kilometres west of the Kitsault River, 25.5 kilometres north of the town of Alice Arm. The showing was rediscovered in 1970 after being investigated sometime earlier this century.

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

The Fisher showing occurs in the western margin of the "Copper Belt", a 10 kilometre long northwest trending gossanous body of Hazelton Group plagioclase-hornblende porphyritic andesite that has been extensively pyritized with variable silicification and sericitization along its length.

This showing consists of a quartz vein with inclusions of chlorite that is developed near the intersection of three faults striking 030, 000 and 120 degrees. The vein is mineralized with pyrite and chalcopyrite. A 1.2 metre chip sample assayed 83.0 grams per tonne silver and 0.89 per cent copper (Assessment Report 2887, page 12).

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 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
EMR MP CORPFILE (Dolly Varden Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
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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