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File Created: 06-Jun-2018 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  20-May-2019 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name 4440, SPECTRUM Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G068
Status Showing NTS Map 104G09W
Latitude 057º 41' 34'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 28' 56'' Northing 6395479
Easting 411636
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types H04 : Epithermal Au-Ag-Cu: high sulphidation
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The 4440 occurrence area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group.

The zone is located about 230 metres northeast of the northernmost drilling at the Spectrum Central Zone, just north of the old access drill road from the valley bottom and was discovered in 1990. The area is underlain by quartz-sericite-pyrite altered, biotite hornfelsed Stuhini volcanics, possibly on the west side, hangingwall, of a large feldspar porphyry body. Mineralization occurs in a narrow, incised creek gulley and is mostly covered by talus debris. Mineralization is hosted in a north-south trending, 80 degrees west-dipping, 10 to 40 centimetres wide shear, gougy fault zone that hosts semi-massive to massive arsenopyrite-quartz + sphalerite veining and vein fragments.

In 2016, mineralization was traced over a five-metre strike length. 2015, 2016 and historical prospecting grab samples yielded gold values ranging from less than 1.0 gram per tonne gold to 16.9 grams per tonne gold and 1.0 to 56.2 grams per tonne silver (as reported in Assessment Report 36675). Rock samples of quartz-sericite-pyrite altered volcanics that host the mineralization on the east and west side of the structure yielded less than 50 parts per billion gold. The showing is largely covered by overburden but 2015 soil sampling outlined a strong gold-arsenic in soil geochemical signature extending downslope and to the east from the occurrence suggesting additional parallel structures could be present. As of 2017, the 4440 zone was one of the few remaining showings near the Central Zone that had not received drill testing. 2015 chip sample (18241) over 1.5 metres assayed 0.95 gram per tonne gold, 0.06 per cent copper and 0.7 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 36675).

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1981-208
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 1418A
GSC P 71-44
Giroux, G.H and Stacey, J.R., (2016): Technical Report on the Spectrum Gold-Copper Property for Skeena Resources Limited, May 31, 2016
Godden, S.J., Mehner, D.T., Thomas, D.G., Britton, S.A., Martin, C.J., Brodie, J. (2017): Technical Report on the 2017 Mineral Resource Updates and Preliminary Economic Assessment, Spectrum-GJ Copper-Gold Project, for Skeena Resources Limited, May 24, 2017.

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