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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 SNOW CREEK Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A001
Status Showing NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 00' 58'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 51' 07'' Northing 6208194
Easting 446889
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Snow Creek showing is located approximately 12 kilometres northeast of the town of Stewart. Limited road access includes the Stewart Highway (37A) and logging roads along the north side of Bitter Creek. A network of trails was cut between Cable and Snow creeks along slopes south of Bitter Creek.

The outcrop at the showing, about 10 metres wide by 10 metres long, consists of a light grey, altered andesitic unit of the Jurassic Hazelton Group. Mineralization occurs as predominantly disseminated pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite, up to 20 per cent locally, within the andesite. Greater concentrations of sulphides in some areas appear to follow a bedded form which would suggest the unit is volcanic. An unmineralized feldspar porphyry dike intrudes through the volcanic in the middle of the creek. A right-lateral shear, striking 045-050 degrees with a near-vertical dip, cuts through both units and follows up the southwest fork of Snow Creek. In 1996, grab rock sampling from an area containing disseminated pyrrhotite and arsenopyrite assayed up to 2.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.18 per cent copper, 0.10 per cent zinc and 138 parts per million lead (Assessment Report 24713).

Snow Creek was sampled in 1994 and two samples described as veins 5 to 30 centimetres wide with 60 to 70 per cent massive sulphides yielded values up to 3.87 grams per tonne gold, 98.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.21 per cent copper, 1410 parts per million lead and 21.9 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 24713). The rock sampling in 1996 was not able to reproduce these values.

In 1996, a program comprising physical, geochemical, geological, and prospecting work was carried out in selected areas of the Bitter Creek, Old John, and Barney claim groups of the Bear River Property (formerly known as the MM Property) by owner/operator KRL Resources Corp.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *24713
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP 28A; 216A; 217A; 307A; 315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC OF 2582; 2779

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