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File Created: 14-Jun-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  19-Jun-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name BIMBO Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P092
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13E
Latitude 055º 56' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 37' 07'' Northing 6200658
Easting 461370
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Bimbo occurrence is located in the Cambria Icefield about 24 kilometres east of Stewart.

Eighty per cent of the showing area is ice covered and the remaining 20 per cent is talus and outcrop. The showing is underlain by Middle-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics locally consisting of variably ankerite altered andesitic volcanics, volcaniclastics and epiclastics; up to 3 per cent disseminated pyrite occurs in the volcanics. North-northeast trending faults occur throughout and within them pervasive quartz + sericite + pyrite + ankerite alteration of the rock is common. Minor gossans are also evident.

Minor quartz veining occurs throughout the area and on occasion the veins contain limited pyrite, sphalerite and arsenopyrite. A rock chip sample (141417) taken over a 25 centimetre wide quartz vein mineralized with up to 20 per cent pyrite and minor arsenopyrite assayed 4.08 grams per tonne gold and 20.4 grams per tonne silver; this vein is hosted in andesite. A 1 metre wide sample (141416) taken across a carbonate altered shear zone within andesite lapilli tuff assayed 0.41 gram per tonne gold and 0.34 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 24185).

In 1994, Camnor Resources Ltd. conducted geological mapping and sampling and five rock chip samples collected (of the five, three were misplaced at the lab).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *24185
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 307A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996

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