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File Created: 08-Feb-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  12-Feb-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name A.E.I. Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A021
Status Showing NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 12' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 56' 56'' Northing 6229008
Easting 441138
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The A.E.I. showing is located 3 kilometres west of American Creek and 13.7 kilometres north-northwest of the junction of the Bear River and American Creek, 32 kilometres north of Stewart.

Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group) green andesitic tuffs and schists outcrop in the showing area. Massive pyrite with arsenopyrite, bornite and chalcopyrite occurs in milky quartz veins to a maximum of one metre in width, which is exposed in a cirque. The highest copper and silver assays are associated with bornite in a reddish tuff.

In 1988, rock chip sample 3 (6959) of blebs of bornite in reddish tuff assayed 118.5 grams per tonne silver and 1.29 per cent copper. Rock chip sample 10 (32926) of bornite and malachite in reddish tuff assayed 86.5 grams per tonne silver and 4.28 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19109).

In 1988, a VLF-EM geophysical survey and rock chip sampling was carried out over the A.E.I. claims by owner/operator A. Ingelson.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *19109
EMPR BULL 58; 63; 85
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC OF 2582; 2779

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