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File Created: 28-Mar-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  09-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name RED 76 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P083
Status Showing NTS Map 103P14W
Latitude 055º 51' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 24' 20'' Northing 6190533
Easting 474612
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Red 76 showing is about 31 kilometres east-southeast of Stewart along the eastern margins of the extensive Cambria Icefield, near the toe of the North Flat Glacier.

At the toe of the North Flat Glacier, andesitic agglomerates of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) contain up to 7 per cent pyrite as well as trace amounts of pyrrhotite. Fine arsenopyrite crystals also occur in a pale grey tuff unit; the rock weathered slightly red in colour and mineralization was fairly local to a small area. Along the northeastern edge of the glacier's toe, spotty blebs of galena and sphalerite are associated with discontinuous quartz stringers. Numerous barren quartz stringers, lenses and narrow stockwork zones, generally with varying amounts of calcite, were also noted in the above area. Blocks of fossiliferous limestone up to 60 centimetres across form part of the agglomerates in this general vicinity. Numerous carbonate alteration zones up to several metres in width are present throughout the andesitic rocks.

A rock chip sample (KK-139) across 0.5 metre of quartz-calcite stringers hosted in chlorite altered, fine grained andesite crystal tuff contains 1-2 per cent disseminated fine-grained pyrite, 3-5 per cent chalcopyrite, 7-10 per cent galena and 3-5 per cent sphalerite in aggregates and clusters. This sample assayed 2.83 per cent lead, 23.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.12 per cent copper and 0.10 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 23947). The vein is usually well mineralized at junctions of two or more stringers.

In 1994, work conducted on behalf of Teuton Resources Corp. on the Red 67, 68, 73, 74 and 76 claims was part of a larger program covering several Stewart area properties. A total of 101 reconnaissance rock samples were taken during the program.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *23947
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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