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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jan-2020 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name GS, GOLDEN SHOWER Mining Division Atlin, Liard
BCGS Map 104J034
Status Showing NTS Map 104J06W
Latitude 058º 23' 21'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 23' 32'' Northing 6474525
Easting 360153
Commodities Mercury Deposit Types H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Golden Shower occurrence is located about 9 kilometres west of Beatty Creek, in the Level Mountain Range, approximately 56 kilometres north of the community of Telegraph Creek.

The showing area is underlain by a bimodal assemblage of Miocene to Pliocene volcanic rocks belonging to the Level Mountain Group. Spectacular alteration zones along the main ridges are associated with iron and manganese stained, weakly brecciated, silicified and kaolinized rhyolites and trachytes. A rock sample from a brecciated, weakly silicified, limonitic stained felsite (altered rhyolite or trachyte) analysed up to 6000 parts per billion mercury (Assessment Report 12219).

In 1983, Kerr Addison Mines Limited conducted a program of prospecting, mapping, and rock geochemical sampling. A total of 29 rock chip samples were collected and analysed.

In 2016, Colorado Resources sent 3 geologists to the GS claims, which covered the area of the Golden Shower mercury showing. Several small zones of weak silicification were identified in felsic volcanic rock float that were also asociated with stronger limonite alteration. Assay of the 11 rock samples taken did not yield any favorable results.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *12219, 36282
EMPR PF (104J General File - Claim maps 73M, 73 M-1, Dec. 1970)
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC OF 707
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A
GSC SUM RPT 1925, Part A, pp. 33A-99A

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