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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104A4 Ag7
Name GOLDIE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A001
Status Prospect NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 00' 12'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 52' 22'' Northing 6206794
Easting 445572
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The exact location of the Goldie occurrence is not known. The Goldie claims are variously reported as being north or east of the Emperor deposit (104A 056). The occurrence is assumed to lie about 9 kilometres northeast of Stewart, about 4.2 kilometres east of the Stewart highway (37A), on the divide between Glacier and Bitter creeks.

The area is underlain by north striking, west dipping slates and argillites of the Middle-Upper Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group) (Bulletin 58 and 63; Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 175). North trending dikes are conspicuous in the area (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1926). Small quartz veins, striking in all directions, cut the fractured slates and are variably mineralized with pyrite, galena and sphalerite.

Mineralization occurs in a 9 metre wide belt of slate lying between two dikes. At 1219 metres elevation, another dike cuts diagonally across the slates and dikes. Galena occurs along a shear that postdates the latter dike, filling the vein for the width of the dike (about 5.5 metres).

The Goldie claims were staked by Tooth, McLeod and Howse in 1924. A shallow, 6 metre long tunnel was driven on a galena-bearing quartz vein in 1925. Two tonnes of clean galena were shipped that year producing 2550 grams of silver, 294 kilograms of lead and 122 kilograms of zinc. Assay values were 80 per cent lead and 2880.0 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1925, page 88). No further work has been reported.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1925-63,88,444; *1926-92
EMPR ASS RPT 20379
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP 28A; 216A; 217A; 307A; *315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 175, p. 119
GSC OF 2582; 2779

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