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File Created: 15-Feb-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name ROCKET Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P062
Status Showing NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 38' 26'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 44' 41'' Northing 6166321
Easting 453130
Commodities Silver, Gold, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Rocket showing is located about 3 kilometres northeast of the north end of Hastings Arm, 35 kilometres southeast of Stewart.

The majority of outcrop in the showing area consists of medium to coarse-grained granodiorite to diorite of the Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex. Small gossanous zones comprise fractured hornblende biotite diorite with blebs and disseminations of pyrite and epidote along sercitic fractures. Rock grab samples from these zones yielded up to 0.45 gram per tonne gold, 83.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.61 per cent copper and 0.33 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 24746).

In 1995, Camnor Resources Ltd. conducted helicopter stream sediment sampling, followed by prospecting, rough geological mapping and rock sampling of anomalies. A total of 18 stream sediment silt samples and 13 rock samples were collected.

2018 exploration works on the Golddigger property by Goliath Resources Ltd. focused on areas east of Hastings Arm, including the Rocket. Highlights include discoveries of multiple breccias, stockworks, and veins containing high grade gold and polymetallic mineralization. Exploration focused on extensive areas of recent glacial and snowpack abatement. Both an airborne magnetics survey and a LiDAR survey were completed on the property. The magnetic data shows multiple linear magnetic low breaks. One hundred and seven (107) chip/grab samples and twenty-one (21) channel samples were collected during the 2018 field season. A new discovery termed the Golden Rocket was discovered 800 metres to the northeast of the Rocket showing (Assessment Report 37783).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1922 to 1934
EMPR Paper 2017-1 pp. 61-82
EMPR OF 1986-2, 1994-14, 1996-13
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR MAP 8
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC OF 864

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