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File Created: 28-May-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  11-Feb-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name STATION P12, TANZILLA Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104I022
Status Showing NTS Map 104I05E
Latitude 058º 17' 49'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 36' 21'' Northing 6461920
Easting 464484
Commodities Lead, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Station P12 occurrence on the Tanzilla property is located just to the north of the headwaters area of the Tanzilla River about 30 kilometres southeast of the community of Dease Lake.

Most of the volcanic rocks observed in the Station P12 showing area consist of subaerial (weakly hematite stained) pyroclastic rocks ranging from lapilli tuffs to coarse debris flows, probably of Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic age. Fragments range from lapilli size to 60 centimetres and are generally rounded and both monomictic and polymictic, depending upon location, typically with a fine-grained feldspar-phyric matrix. Dark green, fine-grained augite-phyric rocks, probably andesite flows, occur below the fragmental rocks and are more prominent in ranges forming the southern part of the property area. Locally, both fragmental volcanic rocks and andesite flow units appear to grade into hard, dark, very fine-grained massive units which might be hornfelsed units. On the eastern edge of the claims, dark green to black volcanic flows occur with coarse-grained, bladed feldspar phenocrysts. At lower elevations on many of the ridges it is common to find outcrops of pale grey granodiorite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Snowdrift Creek pluton.

Galena occurs within a sheeted quartz veinlet hosted in andesitic volcanics. A rock sample (ca. 2005; B280957) analyzed 0.09 per cent lead and 1.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 28433).

In 2005, rock and stream sediment sampling were carried out on behalf of Western Keltic Mines Inc. and a total of 21 rock chip samples and 9 stream sediment and/or moss mat samples were collected.

In 2011, Finsbury Exploration Ltd. carried out exploration over the property as part of a soil and silt sampling program over a much larger 168,983 hectare property area known as the Galaxie property. This work identified a bornite occurrence in the area, described as being located in a cirque near the headwaters of Snowdrift Creek, and comprising a mafic volcanic hosting variable amounts of chalcocite, malachite, and lesser bornite in 3 to 4-millimetres wide veinlets. Four rock samples of mineralized talus yielded values from greater than 0.1 to greater than 1.0 per cent copper (Bowen, B.K. (2012-07-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project).

In 2012, Quartz Mountain Resources Ltd., on the Galaxie property, conducted systematic soil and induced polarization surveys over eight high-priority grids and two target areas identified by the 2011 stream sediment and soil geochemical results. This work included an induced polarization survey over almost the entirety of title 512878 and the southeastern third of title 604847.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *28433
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 29-1962; 1418A; 1712A
GSC OF 610; 2262; 2779
GSC P 78-1A, pp. 25-27
Bowen, B.K. *(2012-07-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project
Bowen, B.K. (2013-04-30): Technical Report on the Galaxie Project

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