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File Created: 10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FRASER CREEK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B065
Status Showing NTS Map 104B11E
Latitude 056º 39' 50'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 04' 45'' Northing 6281915
Easting 372572
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Fraser Creek occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 310 metres near a north east flowing tributary of Bronson Creek and approximately 2.2 kilometres south-southeast of the junction of Bronson Creek and the Iskut River.

The area is underlain by a sequence of folded and faulted andesitic volcanic and clastic sedimentary rock units of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. The sequences of clastic layered rocks consist of volcanic wackes, andesitic flows, and argillite interbeds. The sedimentary and volcanic rocks have been intruded by monzodioritic to gabbroic rocks of the Triassic to Jurassic Iskut River (Bronson) Stock.

Locally, the type of mineralization is not described but is likely similar to or related to the nearby Bronson Slope (MINFILE 104B 077) occurrence.

In 2011, two chip samples (SP11-6-25-5 and SP11-6-25-3) from a trench or trenches assayed 12.55 and 3.5 grams per tonne gold, 122 and 188 grams per tonne silver, 0.34 and 0.90 per cent copper, 0.12 and 0.25 per cent lead with 0.19 and 5.36 per cent zinc, respectively, over 0.15 metre each (Burgoyne, A.A. (2012-05-07): Technical Report on The Iskut Property with Special Reference to Johnny Flats & Burnie Trend Target). Also at this time, two rock samples (L991965 and L991957), taken approximately 350 metres to the south east, yielded 2.7 and 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 124 and 139 grams per tonne silver, 5.40 and 3.01 per cent copper, 9.86 and 7.03 per cent lead with 2.09 and 2.99 per cent zinc, respectively (Burgoyne, A.A. (2012-05-07): Technical Report on The Iskut Property with Special Reference to Johnny Flats & Burnie Trend Target).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Bronson Slope (MINFILE 104B 077) occurrence and a complete regional exploration history can be found there.

During 2009 through 2011, Skyline Gold Corp. completed programs of prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, trenching, airborne and ground geophysical surveys and 23 diamond drill holes, totalling 5676 metres, on the area as the Iskut property.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, p. 123
EMPR GM 1997-03
EMPR OF 1989-10; 1990-16; 1994-1; 1992-1; 1992-3; 1998-10
GSC MAP 9-1957; 311A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
Anderson, R.G., (1988): A Paleozoic and Mesozoic Stratigraphic and Plutonic Framework for the Iskut Map area (104B), Northwestern British Columbia, pp. A1-A5, in Geology and Metallogeny of North- western British Columbia, Smithers Exploration Group, G.A.C. Cordilleran Section Workshop, October 16-19, 1988
*Burgoyne, A.A. (2012-05-07): Technical Report on The Iskut Property with Special Reference to Johnny Flats & Burnie Trend Target

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