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File Created: 18-Apr-1986 by John Bradford (JB)
Last Edit:  14-Oct-2021 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name GAUG 1, COPPER ZONE, PAVEY 3, PAVEY, BENNETT, GOLDEN EAGLE Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104M096
Status Showing NTS Map 104M15W
Latitude 059º 56' 03'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 134º 53' 50'' Northing 6644084
Easting 505744
Commodities Silver, Copper, Iron Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Nisling
Capsule Geology

The adit of the Gaug 1 showing is located on the east side of Bennett Lake and is driven horizontally into the lower portion of an altered shear zone. The adit is in good shape and is about 1 by 1.5 metres in width and 15 metres long.

The Gaug 1 showing occurs in an area underlain by Late Triassic rocks of the Stikine Plutonic Suite. These rocks are in contact with basaltic volcanic rocks of the Devonian to Middle Triassic Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite to the west, and Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic rocks consisting of conglomerate and coarse clastic sedimentary rocks to the east.

The shearing occurs in granodiorite. The shear zone, 4 metres wide and at least 10 metres long, strikes east to southeast, and dips moderately northeast. Mineralization consists of a 30-centimetre-wide section of disseminated to massive chalcopyrite, magnetite, minor pyrite and bornite. Malachite/Azurite staining extends 1.0 metre outward from the mineralized zone. Malachite staining covers the walls of the adit.

The highest value from grab samples of massive sulphides taken from above the adit was 9.49 per cent copper and 93.94 grams per tonne silver (sample 7700A) and a grab sample of malachite-stained granodiorite assayed 3.26 per cent copper and 28.46 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11044). A grab sample of malachite-stained sheared granodiorite taken from an outcrop 450 metres below the adit assayed 0.5 per cent copper (Assessment Report 19186).

Refer to the Skarn prospect (104M 085) for a detailed history of the Pavey property.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 105
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 217-231; 1990, pp. 139-144, 153-159
EMPR GEOS MAP 1997-1
EMPR OF 1988-5
EMPR PF (In 104M General File - Claim map of 104M, 1970 and Mihalynuk, M.G., et al (1988): A Closer Look at the Llewellyn Fault-Tectonic Implications and Economic Mineral Potential; In Abstracts: Smithers Exploration Group Workshop, October 1988; Lodestar Explorations Inc. Prospectus, July 1990)
EMPR RGS 37, 1993
GSC MAP 19-1957; 94A; 711; 1418A; 1426
GSC MEM 37
GSC OF 427; 2225, p. 42
GSC P 69-01A, pp. 23-27; 78-01A, pp. 69-70; 91-01A, pp. 147-153; 92-01A
GSC SUM RPT 1906, pp. 26-32; 1911, pp. 27-58
Aurora Geosciences Ltd. (2012-07-09): Technical Report – Golden Eagle Property

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