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File Created: 23-Feb-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  09-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name RED 23 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P072
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13E
Latitude 055º 47' 11'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 42' 09'' Northing 6182531
Easting 455939
Commodities Silver, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Red 23 occurrence is situated along the southern limits of the extensive Cambria Icefield, overlooking the headwaters of the Kshwan River to the south, about 23 kilometres southeast of Stewart.

The showing is underlain primarily by Middle-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group sedimentary rocks. Locally silicified black argillite contains trace to 2 per cent pyrrhotite. Hornfelsed areas are common but intrusive rocks are not apparent in outcrop. Rocks in the southern portion of the showing area consist of a volcaniclastic package comprised of bedded reworked tuffs, argillites, limestones and hornfels. A chlorite altered and sheared andesitic tuff with intense iron oxide alteration contains 3-5 per cent disseminated pyrrhotite and pyrite and 1-3 millimetre quartz veinlets; a rock chip sample (KK-873) analysed 2.2 grams per tonne silver and 130 parts per billion gold. Nearby, a grap sample (ERK-863) from black, rusty, silicified argillite with 1-2 per cent fine-grained pyrrhotite yielded 1.8 grams per tonne silver and 0.09 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 23936).

In 1994, reconnaissance rock chip samples were taken on behalf of Teuton Resources Corp.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *23936
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2996

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