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File Created: 05-Feb-2013 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  01-Jul-2014 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name ABOVECAMP, TIDE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B030
Status Showing NTS Map 104B08E
Latitude 056º 15' 55'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 04' 30'' Northing 6236118
Easting 433417
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Bismuth Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Abovecamp showing area is underlain by andesitic rock of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation 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.

Prospecting was carried out in the area and a, 3.8 grams per tonne gold-in-soil, sample was collected in 2004 which resulted in several gold-bearing quartz veins being identified in 2005. At the time, the veins were located approximately 350 metres from the main camp. Similar to most veins on the Tide property they trend roughly east-west, are steeply dipping and typically thin (less than 20 centimetres). The veins appear to be rich in silver, contain anomalous to significant base metal values and are somewhat unique in that they also contain very high bismuth (up to 922 parts per million). One sample assayed 2.99 grams per tonne gold, 433 grams per tonne silver, 1 per cent lead, 0.09 per cent copper and 0.086 per cent zinc (Sample 279467, Assessment Report 28012). This sample is a 15 centimetre wide vein in intrusive rock, with goethite, jarosite and hematite on the surface.

Refer to Tide (104B 129) for details of the Tide property work history of which the Abovecamp 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/

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