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File Created: 05-May-2020 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  22-Jun-2023 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name MOUNT HICKS, SCHAFT CREEK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G036
Status Showing NTS Map 104G07W
Latitude 057º 20' 06'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 58' 13'' Northing 6356406
Easting 381404
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Mount Hicks showing is located roughly 44 kilometres southwest of Kakiddi Lake, on a west facing slope, approximately 3.5 kilometres south-southeast of the Schaft Creek property (104G 015).

The Mount Hicks showing area is underlain by andestic and basaltic volcanic rock of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group in contact to the immediate west with the Middle to Late Triassic Hickman pluton (Stikine Plutonic Suite) consisting of hornblende-quartz diorite to granodiorite and tonalite.

In the Mount Hicks area are rock samples with anomalous copper and gold. These are sample 1143986 with 6.94 per cent copper and 0.58 gram per tonne gold; and sample 1143985 with 2.38 per cent copper and 3.06 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 35967). Both samples were hosted by basalt. The 1143985 sample contained a 5 to 6 centimetre wide chlorite and epidote vein with copper oxides and chalcopyrite. The 1143986 sample was of purple basalt containing copper oxides and green alteration patches.

Work History.

In 2015, Teck Resource conducted soil and rock sampling over their Wolverine Creek grid area and nearby. Teck collected 116 rock samples for analysis, 56 were taken from the Mount LaCasse area to the north of the Schaft Creek deposit, and 60 from the Mount Hicks area to the south.

See Schaft Creek (104G 015) for further details of area geology and a common work history.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *35967
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 251-267
EMPR GEM *1971-38; 1972-526
EMPR OF 1989-7
EMPR PF (Schaft Creek)
GSC MAP 1957-9; 11-1971; 1418A
GSC P 71-44
CIM BULLETIN Vol. 68, No. 758, pp. 49-63, June 1975

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