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File Created: 09-Jul-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MOBILE (ADIT A) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 57' 56'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 54' 55'' Northing 6202619
Easting 442867
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Mobile (Adit A) occurrence is located along the western flank of a ridge separating Albany and Glacier creeks, about 5 kilometres northeast of Stewart.

Siltstone-sandstone-greywacke of the Middle-Upper Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group) has been folded into a canoe-shaped trough overlying andesitic volcanics of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group). A branching system of faults, northerly/north-northwesterly striking and with vertical to moderate dips, crosscuts the contorted sediments in the vicinity of their contact with the volcanics (volcanics to the west). Exposure is not good except in a few places where mineralized sections have been tested by opencutting and adits. The volcanics are transected to the west by a 340-degree trending cataclasticized zone on the contact with an outlier quartz monzonite stock of the Eocene Hyder pluton.

Intermittent exploration has exposed three mineralized zones. Most of this work has concentrated on developing the "A" zone vein system (Adits A, B and C) from which several shipments of high-grade silver ore have been taken. Mineralization exposed in the "A" quartz sulphide breccia vein consists of pyrite, sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, pyrargyrite and occasional native silver. The "B" zone (Adit D) by comparison contains minor silver mineralization with elevated zinc and lead values. Significant gold values have been found in association with massive pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite in the "C" zone.

In 1988, Fest Resources Corp. cut approximately 24 kilometres of line for a control grid and a VLF-EM and magnetometer survey was completed in addition to collecting 946 soil samples. During 2017 through 2020, Singer Resources Inc. and American Creek Resources Ltd. completed programs of geochemical sampling, a 13.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and a 438.5 line-kilometres airborne magnetic and LiDAR survey on the area as the Dunwell property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *18912
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
McCrea, J.A. (2020-10-20): Technical Report on the Dunwell Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada
EMPR PFD 671695

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