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File Created: 27-Mar-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  09-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name RED 69 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P083
Status Showing NTS Map 103P14W
Latitude 055º 53' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 28' 19'' Northing 6193484
Easting 470481
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Red 69 showing is situated along the eastern margins of the extensive Cambria Icefield, atop a ridge separating the headwaters of South Willoughby Creek and the Flat River, about 30 kilometres east of Stewart.

The area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics to the west and Middle-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group sediments to the east. On a ridge trending through the showing area, a thick sequence of light grey felsic volcanics consists of thinly bedded rhyolite tuffs, felsic flows and breccias. Very fine grained pyrite is disseminated throughout the rhyolite in amounts up to 1 per cent. Minor narrow sericite alteration zones strike at approximately 250 degrees. These zones are discontinuous along shear structures but may reach widths of up to 1 metre over lengths of 20 metres. Fine disseminated pyrite as well as narrow pyrite veinlets form up to 5 per cent of the alteration zones.

Numerous quartz veins occur along the ridge. The veins pinch and swell over considerable strike and downdip directions. Veins vary from a few centimetres up to several metres in width. They are generally barren and contain considerable calcite However, in one locality two vein and stockwork occurrences are well mineralized with tetrahedrite and carry appreciable silver values. A grab sample (KK-51) from a 0.3 metre wide quartz vein containing coarse grained blebs of tetrahedrite and strong malachite and azurite stain with intense iron oxide alteration assayed 0.62 gram per tonne gold, 0.13 per cent lead, 2.65 per cent copper, 0.14 per cent zinc and 522 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 23938). The vein strikes 256 degrees and dips 57 degrees north.

In 1994, work conducted on the Red 69, Red 72 and Pepe 6 claims on behalf of Teuton Resources Corp. was part of a larger program covering several Stewart area properties; 78 reconnaissance rock samples were taken.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *23938
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; 2931

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