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File Created: 04-Feb-2013 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  21-Apr-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name SWEET 16, TIDE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B030
Status Showing NTS Map 104B08E
Latitude 056º 16' 23'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 04' 21'' Northing 6236975
Easting 433590
Commodities Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Tide (Sweet 16) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 840 metres on an east facing slope, approximately 0.6 kilometre west of the Bowser River.

The area is underlain by andesitic rocks of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation are unconformably overlain by Lower Middle and Middle Jurassic rocks from the Betty Creek, Mount Dilworth and Salmon River Formations, respectively, all of the Hazelton Group. The Texas Creek Plutonic Suite comprises a group of Early Jurassic granodioritic stocks, dikes, sills and a batholith in the area.

Locally, silver-lead-zinc mineralization occurs within a series of steeply dipping and roughly east-west trending (060 to 100 degrees) quartz-carbonate veins in sedimentary rocks that have been traced for over 200 metres along strike. The veins pinch and swell from 15 to 110 centimeters and typically contain low but variable sulphide mineralization consisting of sphalerite, galena, minor chalcopyrite and molybdenite.

In 2005, chip samples (279456 and 345744) yielded 0.49 and 0.42 gram per tonne gold, 138 and 103 grams per tonne silver, 1.07 and 0.83 per cent lead with 0.06 and 1.09 per cent zinc over 0.30 and 1.00 metre, respectively (Heffernan, R.S. (2006-11-15): Summary Report on the Tide Project).

Refer to Tide (MINFILE 104B 129) for details of the Tide property, of which the Sweet 16 is part of.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR EXPL 1980-465; 1981-90; 1983-521; 1984-385; 1986-375; 2001-1-9; 2004-31,32; 2005-34
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-164; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 217-224; 1986, pp. 81-102
EMPR OF 1987-22
GSC MAP 9-1957; 307A; 315A; 1418A
GSC MEM 175
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
HTTP http://www.kiskametals.com/
*Heffernan, R.S. (2006-11-15): Summary Report on the Tide Project
Awmack, H., Major, J. (2008-03-11): 2008 Technical Report on the Tide Property

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