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File Created: 04-Jun-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  23-Jan-2013 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name MAIN/CLUB, MAIN, CLUB, BASELINE, RDN Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G007
Status Showing NTS Map 104G02E
Latitude 057º 02' 55'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 39' 35'' Northing 6324018
Easting 399309
Commodities Gold, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Main/Club area is underlain by Lower Jurassic dacite of the Hazelton Group.

On surface, the Main zone quartz-sulphide vein breccia strikes 255 degrees and appears to dip 70 degrees north. In 1996 chip sampling assayed 3.1 grams per tonne Au, 0.49 per cent lead and 1.13 per cent zinc across a true width of 6.5 metres (Assessment Report 26184). Holes RDN99-02 and -03 were drilled perpendicular to the zone’s trend. The Club zone is an isolated outcrop of quartz breccia with minor sulphides, located 165 metres west along strike from the Main Zone and exhibiting similar textures and mineralogy. Hole RDN99-09 was collared 15 metres at 345 degrees from the Club zone quartz breccia outcrop. The Baseline Showing is an isolated 1.1 by 3.5 metre quartz breccia vein outcrop, located approximately 180 metres south of the Club/Main zone and surrounded by numerous silicified boulders. A chip sample in 1997 assayed 6.21 grams per tonne gold across 1.1 metres (Assessment Report 26184). The Baseline showing was tested with one hole (RDN99-04).

Drilling intersected dacite cut by grey quartz which has been brecciated and infilled by black quartz with clots of sphalerite, galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite.

The Main/Club zone and Baseline showing are wide quartz vein/fault zones with moderate base metal contents. However, they are marked by a trace element signature which is distinct from the Wedge Zone, with a much lower ratio of gold to base metals. The four 1999 drill holes showed true widths of 6.9 to 16.8 metres for these zones, but only low gold contents (87 to 1619 parts per billion across the entire zone). The dacite in which they are hosted is fault-bounded and no potential for Eskay-style VMS mineralization has been recognized in this area.

See RDN (104G 144) for details of a common work history.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1996-B11; 1999-1-11; 2000-1-8; 2001-1-9,65-71; 2004-30; 2005-32
EMPR FIELDWORK *1991, pp. 161-178
EMPR INF CIRC 2000-1, p. 14; 2001-1, p.10
EMPR OF 1999-2; 1999-14

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