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MINFILE No 103P 095

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	19-Jun-2012	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI	103P13 Ag19
Name	SILVER BELL-STEWART, SILVER BELL, S.N. FR. (L. 4770), SILVER BELL NO. 4 FR. (L. 4517, SILVER NIGHT (L. 4768)	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103P091
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103P13W
Latitude	055º 54' 36''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	129º 57' 16''	Northing	6196474
		Easting	440336
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Coast Crystalline	Terrane	Stikine

Capsule Geology

The Silver Bell-Stewart occurrence is located on the west slope of Mount Rainey, 4 kilometres southeast of Stewart.

The showing consists of a series of shear zones, up to 1.2 metres wide, in greenstone of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group). The shear zones contain stringers and lenses of galena, sphalerite and pyrite. A grab sample assayed 141 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925, page 80).


Bibliography	EMPR AR *1925-80; 1928-96; 1929-94,95 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 EMR MP CORPFILE (Silver Bell Mining Co. Ltd.) GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A GSC MEM 175, p. 145 GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996 EMPR PFD 670966, 671690, 671691