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File Created: 21-Feb-1992 by John Drobe (JD)
Last Edit:  15-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BISKUT, BIS, VOIGTBERG, NICKY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104G018
Status Showing NTS Map 104G02E
Latitude 057º 06' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 35' 44'' Northing 6331472
Easting 403381
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Biskut showing is located on an unnamed tributary north and west of More Creek, approximately 6.5 kilometres southeast of the Matthew Glacier.

The area is underlain by Upper Triassic volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Stuhini Group.

Locally, four styles of mineralization have been noted on the property: widespread low grade Au associated with disseminated and fracture coated pyrite; fracture coated molybdenite; fracture coated, disseminated and replacement style Zn-Pb; and east-northeast-trending discontinuous massive pyrite veins.

At the Gold Zone, felsite bodies host a quartz-sericite-pyrite-clay alteration zone, 300 metres by 50-100 metres wide and contain up to five per cent pyrite, minor galena and arsenopyrite. All original textures are obliterated by supergene leaching.

In 1988 and 1989, the area was first explored by Lac Minerals. In 1990, Keewatin Enginnering conducted a program of surface sampling on the adjoining Arctic claims and took a number of samples on the showing. A felsite sample with no visible sulphides from the Voigtberg claim block returned 16.1 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 22507). In 1991, 344967 B.C. Limited staked the Voigtberg and Nicky claims and completed a program of rock geochemical sampling. From 1993 to 1994 Kingston Resources completed geological mapping, soil geochemical and I.P. geophysical surveys over a 14.0 kilometre metric grid. Geophysical and geochemical surveys outlined a significant gold soil anomaly returning greater than 900 parts per billion gold in an area measuring 50 by 150 metres and is coincident with a zone of high I.P. chargeability (Asessment Report 23626). From 1995 through 1996, Hayden Resources and Hemlo Gold completed various exploration programs including 3 diamond drill holes, totalling 448.2 metres. Drilling returned an average of 0.263 gram per tonne over 448.2 metres including 2.01 grams per tonne gold over 2.3 metres (Assessment Report 24937). In 2006, Kaminak Gold acquired the property and completed a program of geological mapping, geochemical sampling and four diamond drill holes, totalling 717.09 metres. Drill hole VGT06-05 returned values of 1.03 grams per tonne gold over 51.15 metres. A new zone of molybdenite mineralization, Moly Zone, was found approximately 300 metres east of the Gold Zone. Eight grab samples, from a 60 by 20 metre mineralized zone, yielded 0.211 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 28837). In 2008 through 2011, BCGold Corporation completed programs of geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 19605, *22507, 23117, *23626, 24189, *24937, *28837, 29682, 32571

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