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File Created: 21-Nov-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  27-Mar-2022 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name CANADIAN, SNOWFIELDS Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B010
Status Showing NTS Map 104B01E
Latitude 056º 05' 53'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 03' 04'' Northing 6217491
Easting 434612
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Canadian showing is located on the east side of the Salmon Glacier, at approximately 390 metres elevation.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group, Unuk River Formation metavolcanics. The Hazelton Group is a northwest- trending, steeply east- dipping belt of folded andesitic lapilli tuffs, flows and breccia containing a thick sequence of argillite and siltstone infolded along a synclinal axis. The sequence is intruded by Early Jurassic Texas Creek dacitic porphyry dikes.

Locally, quartz veins and stockworks occur in argillite and siltstone that host chalcopyrite, sphalerite and malachite mineralization. The width of the vein and stockwork zone averages 2 to 4 metres and is exposed over a length of at least 60 metres on a very steep slope.

In 1991 and 1992, Westmin Resources and Homestake Canada completed a program of soil sampling, geological mapping and prospecting. Representative samples returned values up to 0.62 gram per tonne gold, 88 grams per tonne silver, 1.74 per cent copper, 1.74 per cent lead and 3.42 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 22705).

During 2004 through 2019, the area has been explored as part of the Silver Coin property and a complete property exploration history can be at the nearby Silver Coin (MINFILE 104B 150) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *22705
Butler, S. (2013-08-23): NI 43-101 Report – Silver Coin Project
Rennie, D.W. (2019-01-17): Technical Report on the Premier Project
Pinnacle Mines, Ltd. (2009-12-30): Silver Coin Gold Project NI 43-101 Preliminary Economic Assessment Report, Stewart, British Columbia, Canada

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