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File Created: 05-Sep-2013 by Ted Fuller (TAF)
Last Edit:  15-Sep-2015 by Ted Fuller (TAF)

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NMI
Name LOST VALLEY, RED MOUNTAIN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P092
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13E
Latitude 055º 56' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 42' 51'' Northing 6199779
Easting 455388
Commodities Gold, Silver, Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Banks Island Gold Limited discovered an area of gold, silver, molybdenum and copper mineralization in 2012 about 15 kilometres east of Stewart, British Columbia (Assessment Report 33873). The eastern arm of the Bromley Glacier at Lost Mountain had receded to the Cambria Icefield and exposed a recently de-glacierized valley they referred to as Lost Valley. This discovery is located 880 metres along the igneous/hornfels contact from the MacAdam Point showing (MINFILE 103P 220).

The MacAdam Intrusive is composed of a medium to coarse grained off-white quartz monzonite with large potash feldspar crystals (5 to 10 centimetres). Quartz veins have alteration haloes of pink potash feldspar (Rhys et al. 1995). The quartz monzonite has a hornfels zone with a shear zone at the contact. Two chip samples were collected, one over 5.0 metres with 6.2 grams per tonne gold, 22 grams per tonne silver and 0.40 percent molybdenum, the other over 3.0 metres with 0.1 gram per tonne gold, 12 grams per tonne silver, 0.45 percent molybdenum, and 0.1 percent copper. Two rockfall grab samples were collected closer to the MacAdam Point showing with the first having 71 grams per tonne gold, 197 grams per tonne silver, 1.1 percent copper and the second having 35 grams per tonne gold, 102 grams per tonne silver and 0.2 percent copper (Assessment Report 33873).

The Lost Valley area was prospected and 65 rock samples were collected from four areas (Centre, East Contact Zone, North, and South Contact Zone).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *33873
Rhys, D.A., Seib, M., Frostad, S.R., Swanson, C.L., Prefontaine, M.A., Mortenson, J.K., & Smit, H.Q. 1995. Geology and Setting of the Red Mountain Gold-Silver Deposits, Northwestern British Columbia. In Schroeter, T.G. (ed) Porphyry deposits of the northwestern Cordillera of North America, Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum Special Volume 46: p. 811-828.
EMPR PFD 650314

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