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File Created: 21-Jan-1992 by William (Bill) Coombe (WC)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name HD, RON Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A001
Status Showing NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 01' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 48' 25'' Northing 6209805
Easting 449713
Commodities Zinc, Silver, Gold, Tungsten Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The HD showing is located on the north side of Roosevelt Creek, approximately 900 metres northeast of the confluence of Roosevelt and Bitter creeks, about 15 kilometres northeast of Stewart.

The area is underlain by north striking, folded argillites of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group) (Bulletin 63). Several north to northwest-trending dikes are conspicuous in the area.

Mineralization comprises a small pod, 30 by 5 centimetres, of nearly massive sphalerite that occurs in a narrow northwest-trending fault. A grab(?) sample collected in 1984 assayed 44 per cent zinc, 229.3 grams per tonne silver and trace gold (Assessment Report 13352). A grab sample (outcrop?) collected in 1979, from the same location or nearby, assayed 1.7 grams per tonne silver, 1.2 grams per tonne gold and 0.05 per cent tungsten (WO3) (Assessment Report 8095).

The showing may have been known earlier, but it was first reported in 1979 when it was covered by the Ron claims, then owned by Schumacher. That year, Beaver Gold Resources Inc. optioned the property and carried out geological mapping, prospecting and geochemical surveys in the area. No further work was done until 1984 when the showing was covered by the HD claim, owned by Maralgo Mines Limited. That year Maralgo conducted airborne geophysical surveys and geological mapping and sampling in the area; this work included sampling of the showing. In 1990, Varitech Resources Ltd. conducted a program of geological mapping, prospecting, sampling and soil, VLF-EM and magnetometer surveys in the area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *8095, 10489, *13352, 20379, 20622
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR EXPL 1979-273
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP 28A; 216A; 217A; 307A; 315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC OF 2582; 2779
Placer Dome File
EMPR PFD 521099

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