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File Created: 23-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name TOE, BIG TOE, FOREMORE Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G006
Status Showing NTS Map 104G02W
Latitude 057º 04' 01'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 58' 35'' Northing 6326580
Easting 380170
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Toe (Big Toe) occurrence is located is located at an elevation of approximately 1065 metres, near the north toe of the Foremore Glacier.

The area is underlain by the Devonian-Mississippian Stikine Assemblage, a suite of variably foliated mafic to felsic flows and volcaniclastics, interbedded limestone and fine clastic sediments.

Locally, a 0.5-metre-wide zone of banded to massive pyrite-galena-sphalerite-chalcopyrite mineralization is hosted in highly sericitic schist to breccia.

Work History

In 2019, Sassy Resources Corp. completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and geochemical sampling on the area as part of the Foremore property. A sample (1291684) from the Toe occurrence assayed 19.07 per cent zinc, 17.49 per cent lead, 0.12 per cent copper, 78.8 grams per tonne silver and 4.53 grams per tonne gold, whereas a 1.0-metre channel sample (129162) assayed 1.45 grams per tonne gold, 98.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.70 per cent copper, 11.35 per cent zinc and 4.90 per cent lead (Sassy Resources Corporation [2019-12-31]: Amended Independent Technical Report - Foremore Au-Ag-Cu-Zn-Pb Property, British Columbia).

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 104
EMPR EXPL 2003-10, 11; 2004-13, 30-31
EMPR OF 1999-2
Sassy Resources Corporation (2019-12-31): Independent Technical Report - Foremore Au-Ag-Cu-Zn-Pb Property, British Columbia
*Sassy Resources Corporation (2019-12-31): Amended Independent Technical Report - Foremore Au-Ag-Cu-Zn-Pb Property, British Columbia

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