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File Created: 14-Mar-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  09-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name MOUNT MCGUIRE NORTH, LB, CB Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P064
Status Showing NTS Map 103P11W
Latitude 055º 38' 56'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 23' 46'' Northing 6167081
Easting 475068
Commodities Gold Deposit Types L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Mount McGuire North occurrence is situated 400 metres west of Kinskuch Lake, about 18 kilometres north of Alice Arm and 50 kilometres southeast of Stewart.

The Kinskuch Lake area is underlain by volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. These occur along the eastern limb of the north to northwest trending Mount McGuire anticline and have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing area is predominantly underlain by Hazelton Group basaltic flows and epiclastic breccias with minor intercalated andesitic flows. The more competent andesite flows have large-scale shears (up to 250 metres long and 15 metres wide). They are usually gossaned with a moderate to high degree of limonite staining. Sulphide mineralization comprises disseminated pyrite locally up to 30 per cent. The shears are usually friable on surface, but are fresh and moderately silicified underneath the oxidation. A rock sample of material with up to four per cent disseminated pyrite assayed 0.53 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21188).

In 1990, reconnaissance mapping and sampling was completed on behalf of Arc Resource Group Ltd. A total of 24 rock, 30 soil and 20 silt samples were collected.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *21188
EMPR BULL 63
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 1385A
GSC OF 864
Gale, R.E. (1957): Geology of Kinskuch Lake Area, British Columbia, University of British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis
EMPR PFD 820143

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