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File Created: 13-Jun-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  22-May-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MIDWAY, FORREST Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B077
Status Showing NTS Map 104B15E
Latitude 056º 46' 44'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 41' 53'' Northing 6294050
Easting 396250
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Midway showing is underlain by Devonian sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Stikine Assemblage. The Devonian Forrest Kerr Pluton is in contact to the immediate west of the Stikine package. Plutonic rocks consist primarily of Late Devonian granite and diorite.

The Midway showing area was first described in 1988 as a series of weakly mineralized quartz veins containing minor amounts of chalcopyrite and malachite. In 1990, a soil sampling program was initiated by Avondale Resource that covered a portion of the showing. Anomalous soil results were yielded including a gold value of 8.8 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 20562). Follow up prospecting in the general area led to the discovery of gold bearing, chalcopyrite-malachite quartz breccia talus float. Sample 39152 assayed 15.0 grams per tonne gold and 1.7 per cent copper (Assessment Report 20562). Further prospecting failed to turn up in situ mineralization while later detailed soil geochemistry outlined a 400 metre long multi-element soil anomaly, itself spatially related to a major northeast trending structural lineament.

Refer to the Forrest occurrence (104B 380) for a common work history of the Forrest Property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *20562, 23629, 24156, 31193, 32548
EMPR BULL 104
EMPR GM 1997-03
EMPR OF 1990-02; 1990-16
GSC MAP 9-1957; 311A, 1418A
GSC MEM 246
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
Lehtinen, J. (2012-11-20): 2011 Technical Report on the Forrest Project
EMPR PFD 803486

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