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File Created: 18-Apr-1986 by John Bradford (JB)
Last Edit:  20-May-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BEN-GLACIER, BEN 2, PAVEY, BENNETT, GOLDEN EAGLE Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104M096
Status Showing NTS Map 104M15W
Latitude 059º 54' 24'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 134º 53' 12'' Northing 6641022
Easting 506339
Commodities Gold, Silver, Cobalt Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Nisling, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Ben-Glacier showing is south of a glacial meltwater lake, on the east side of Bennett Lake about 70 kilometres west-northwest of Atlin.

At the showing a fracture zone, 2 centimetres wide, cuts fine-grained greywacke of the Lower Jurassic Laberge Group. A quartz vein and other fractures are associated. Mineralization consists of a primary cobalt mineral, pyrite and erythrite stain. A grab sample assayed 6.62 grams per tonne gold, 1.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.37 per cent cobalt (Assessment Report 12554).

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

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 105
EMPR FIELDWORK *1985, pp. 187-188; 1987, pp. 217-231; 1990, pp. 139-144, 153-159
EMPR OF 1988-5
EMPR GEOS MAP 1997-1
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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