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File Created: 14-May-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  03-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P13 Ag23
Name GLACIER GIRL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P081
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 52' 40'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 52' 42'' Northing 6192825
Easting 445048
Commodities Silver, Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Glacier Girl occurrence is located on the east slope of Mount McLeod, 9.5 kilometres southeast of Stewart. Gossanous bluffs were explored for gold and silver in the late 1920s.

The showing consists of a 45 metre wide, 300 metre long silicified zone containing minor pyrrhotite within Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) volcanics(?). The zone hosts lenticular fracture zones up to 5.0 metres wide that are intensely mineralized with pyrrhotite. A 1.5 metre chip sample assayed 13.7 grams per tonne gold, 686 grams per tonne silver and 0.2 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1928, page 94).

In 1928, two separate zones were exposed in a long cut made across the iron-stained bluff. The whole width of the zone has not been opencut, so other fracture zones may yet be found. During 1929, Marmot Metals Company carried out surface stripping on a section of the zone located in 1928 that carried silver and copper values but results indicated that the section carrying values to be restricted and lenticular.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1928-C94; 1929-94
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-164; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 93-102; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMR MP CORPFILE (Marmot Metals Mining Co. Ltd.)
GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 119
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996
Kenwood, S. (2007-06-05): Geological Report on the Marmot River Property

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