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File Created: 16-Aug-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  20-Feb-2014 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name SERAPHIM, NWG 1, INHINI Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B064
Status Showing NTS Map 104B11E
Latitude 056º 38' 21'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 12' 34'' Northing 6279400
Easting 364500
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The area of the Seraphim showing is underlain by the Late Triassic Seraphim Mountain Pluton.

In 1989, Corona Corporation prospected the NWG 1-5 claim group, of the Inhini property, collecting 53 rock samples. In 1990, Link Resources Inc. carried out a 700-kilometre airborne magnetic and EM survey over the entire Inhini Property (Assessment Report 20972).

Several areas of mineralized (galena, sphalerite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite) quartz vein float were located on the NWG claims. Only the Seraphim quartz vein occurrence could be located in situ. Two other areas of mineralized boulders were identified. One has an apparent source under ice and the other was derived off the east side of the property. All mineralization is in narrow quartz healed shear veins in the granodiorite pluton.

Two narrow (less than 25 centimetres) parallel massive sulfide-bearing quartz veins occur within a flat-lying shear zone (up to 1 metre wide) cutting a large coastal granodiorite pluton. No alteration or mineralization occurs in the granodiorite away from the shear zone.

The veins can be traced for 30 metres along strike to the edge of a cliff. Mineralization consists of massive coarse-grained galena, with interstitial pyrite, tetrahedrite and chalcopyrite. Malachite covers all exposed surfaces.

Several grab samples were taken on these veins, and although narrow, the silver values ran up to 18000.15 grams per tonne silver, 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 5.77 per cent copper, 33.0 per cent lead and 1.99 per cent zinc (sample 82205, Assessment Report 19968).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 19834, *19968
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR GM 1997-03
EMPR OF 1989-10; 1990-16; 1994-1; 1992-1; 1992-3; 1998-10
GSC MAP 311A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 246, p. 25,74
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
EMPR PFD 905165, 671579

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