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File Created: 13-Jul-1988 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  11-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name AUGUSTUS, RAE, STELLAR Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B040
Status Showing NTS Map 104B08E
Latitude 056º 23' 23'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 02' 33'' Northing 6249944
Easting 435639
Commodities Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by three Lower to Middle Jurassic formations: Betty Creek, Mount Dilworth, and Salmon River, that form a moderately-east dipping conformable sequence. Upper Betty Creek Formation consists of heterogeneous grey, green, and locally, red dacitic tuffs or flows with thin interbeds of green and reddish conglomerate and wacke. Mount Dilworth Formation consists of white weathering dacitic to rhyodacitic lapilli tuff and ash tuff. Lower Salmon River Formation is black, turbiditic siltstone and shale with thin horizons containing calcareous concretions.

Mineralization in the Betty Creek Formation consists of quartz- carbonate-pyrite veinlets which occur in thin (less than 3 metres) iron carbonate alteration zones. Trace amounts of chalcopyrite and "blond zinc" are reported.

Mt. Dilworth felsic pyroclastics locally have weakly disseminated pyrite.

Basal members of the Salmon River Formation carry thin (hairline to 2 centimetre) seams of pyrite.

No high gold, silver or copper analyses were returned. The highest zinc analysis was 189 parts per million.

In 2006 and 2007, Hathor Exploration Ltd. completed a 7228.7 line-kilometre airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Knip claims of the Iskut project. In 2008, Max Minerals Ltd. examined the property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14659, 17352, 19961
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR EXPL 1986-C439
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 199-209
EMPR OF 1988-4; 1994-14
GSC MAP 9-1957; 1418A
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
Equity Preservation Corp. Compilation: Stewart-Sulphurets-Iskut,
Dec. 1988, (Showing No. B65)
Cavey, G. (2008-11-14): Technical Report on the Iskut Project
EMPR PFD 18990, 671753

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