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File Created: 24-Jan-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  18-May-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MAYBEE (L. 3226), MAYBE VEIN, GOLDEN GENESIS, BLUE JAY (L. 3225), LOUISE (L. 1555), DOROTHY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A011
Status Prospect NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 09' 12'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 55' 12'' Northing 6223526
Easting 442850
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Golden Genesis property lies on the west side of the American Creek valley approximately 25 kilometres north of the town of Stewart. The property consists of six Reverted Crown grants (Louise (Lot 1555), Maybee (Lot 3226), Blue Jay (Lot 3225), Ruby (Lot 887), Lake Fraction (Lot 4956) and Evening (Lot 4953)) and two mineral claims (Dorothy 1 and Dorothy 2).

The Maybee occurrence area is underlain by volcaniclastic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) that occur near the crest of an open anticline. The crest occurs along a ridge to the west of the mineralization. The rocks are typically green to red andesitic crystal tuffs, generally well bedded, siliceous and weakly pyritic and trend 153 degrees with dips 72 degrees to the west. These rocks have been broken and sheared and, in some places, have experienced some replacement and in filling with vein material. It appears that much of the shearing and fracturing has little movement. Where movement has occurred, the relative displacement is largely horizontal with a small vertical component.

Where mineralization is observed it consists mainly of an intergrowth of quartz and jasper, barite and calcite with varying amounts of galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrite. The mineralization appears to occur in structural features such as fracturing or, as observed in one small area, following interformational beds. The infilling and replacement in one area consist of carbonate alteration with trace to 2 per cent chalcopyrite, 1 per cent galena and trace pyrite. Whereas in another area it consisted of a breccia quartz-jasper melange with 2 per cent galena, 2 per cent ‘blackjack’ sphalerite, trace chalcopyrite and 3 per cent pyrite. In this area where the structure was observed, there appears to be intense alteration in the form of clay, (kaolinization) with some barite present as microseams within the fracture.

One vein consisted of a footwall section of approximately 1 metre of massive galena, sphalerite and pyrite and minor chalcopyrite with a quartz-barite gangue followed by a middle section of 2.5 metres of mixed quartz, barite and minor jasper and about 2 per cent mixed sulphides, and a hangingwall section and about one metre of massive sulphides. Abundant copper-stained material is evident in another area.

In 2005, a chip sample (73110) across 30 centimetres of the Maybe Vein assayed 217 grams per tonne silver, 0.275 gram per tonne gold, 11.8 per cent lead, 2.76 per cent zinc, and 0.4 per cent copper (Assessment Report 28115).

In 1998, on behalf of owner F. Kramaric, D. Javorsky performed reconnaissance prospecting and sampled the Maybee Vein exposed in a cliff at 801 metres elevation. He reported that the vein system is 4.26 metres in width and the vein is visible in the face of the cliff (dip extension) for at least 121 metres vertical to where it became buried in the talus below. In 2000, prospecting and topographic mapping was conducted on behalf of owner F. Kramaric. Later in the same year, a total of 18 samples (14 chip and 4 grab) were collected in the exposures of the Maybee Vein. In 2005, the property was visited by M.A. Mitchell and D. Javorsky with the purpose of taking some confirmatory samples. A total of six samples were taken with a gasoline driven, diamond blade, cutoff saw.

From 2011 to 2017, Gulzara Minerals Resources and Exploration Limited explored the area as the Dorothy property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *26006, 26309, 26579, *28115, 33385, 34487, 35702, 36149, 37515
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP 216A; 217A; 307A; *315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 175, p. 128
GSC OF 2779

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