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File Created: 12-Feb-1992 by William (Bill) Coombe (WC)
Last Edit:  12-Feb-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104A4 Ag9
Name LUCKY JIM NO. 2 (L. 5719) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A011
Status Prospect NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 09' 12'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 55' 42'' Northing 6223533
Easting 442332
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Lucky Jim No. 2 showing is located 6.9 kilometres north-northwest of the confluence of American Creek and the Bear River, about 1000 metres west of American Creek, approximately 24 kilometres north of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north trending, west dipping Hazelton Group rocks on the west limb of the north trending American Creek anticline (Bulletin 58; 63). Red to green volcaniclastics, predominantly volcanic sandstone, siltstone and argillite of the Lower Jurassic Betty Creek Formation overlie red to green andesites and intercalated tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Assessment Report 21405).

The showing is located in the central portion of the Lucky Jim No. 2 claim (Lot 5719). It consists of a north-northwest trending, 3.7 metre wide zone of intense fracturing and shearing in the Betty Creek rocks. Mineralization includes quartz, calcite and barite with disseminated galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and minor tetrahedrite. Grab samples collected from trenches on the zone in 1990 assayed up to 8.4 grams per tonne gold, 5.24 per cent zinc, 8.14 per cent lead and 21.9 grams per tonne silver; copper values were negligible (Assessment Report 21405).

A grab sample was collected in 1990 from an outcrop of siliceous, graphitic, brecciated sediment about 120 metres south-southwest of the showing. The sample assayed 30.0 grams per tonne silver, 4.46 per cent zinc and 1.63 per cent lead; gold and copper values were anomalous (Assessment Report 21405).

In 1994, a grab sample (ERK-943) from a vein yielded 105 grams per tonne silver, 5.44 per cent zinc and 0.59 per cent lead (Assessment Report 23964).

The Lucky Jim claim group was located before 1929. That year the owners, Bosence and partners, reported several mineralized occurrences on the claims. Montreal-based interests carried out work, including trenching(?), in 1930; five veins were reported at this time (Property File - Mathews, 1942). Pride Resources Ltd. owned the claims in 1980; no work was reported on the showing. White purchased the claims in 1990 and Teuton Resources Corp. subsequently purchased the claims and carried out geological mapping and sampling. In 1994, work on behalf of Minvita Enterprises Ltd. on the Lucky Jim claims was part of a larger program covering several Stewart area properties; a total of 19 reconnaissance rock samples were taken and sent for analyses.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-104
EMPR ASS RPT 9184, 20784, *21405, *23964
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
EMPR PF (In 104A 011 - Mathews, W.H. (1942): Report on the Mountain Boy Mine, Stewart, B.C.)
GSC MAP 216A; 217A; 307A; *315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 175, p. 128
GSC OF 2779

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