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File Created: 29-May-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  19-Jun-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name SILVER MOUNTAIN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 54' 45'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 54' 39'' Northing 6196731
Easting 443064
Commodities Silver, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Silver Mountain occurrence is located on the southwesterly slopes of Mount Magee, about 6 kilometres south-southeast of Stewart.

The showing area is underlain by fine grained volcaniclastic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation (Hazelton Group). Further eastward towards Barney Glacier and Mount Magee, this succession contacts with predominant fine grained and thin bedded sediments and greywackes of the upper portion of the Hazelton Group, most probably the Salmon River Formation. The character of this north-striking contact is unclear. The rocks of the Hazelton Group successions are crosscut by numerous, predominantly thin and discontinuous, coarse crystalline, white to greyish quartz veins displaying various strikes. The area is apparently invaded at depth by numerous, small-size granodioritic intrusions.

A grab sample (A04-145) across a limonitic shear zone, 5 to 15 centimetres wide, striking 040 degrees and dipping vertically analysed 10.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.67 per cent zinc and 0.07 per cent lead; no visible sulphides are evident (Assessment Report 28021).

In 2004, work on the Silver Mountain property was part of a larger, summer program involving exploration of more than ten separate Teuton Resources Corp. properties. Altogether, 11 samples were taken for analysis; 5 float and 6 grab.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *28021
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-163; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 217, 218; 1986, pp. 81-102; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996

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