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File Created: 13-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  27-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name GOOD GOLLY Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F037
Status Showing NTS Map 082F07E
Latitude 049º 23' 42'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 38' 35'' Northing 5471429
Easting 525901
Commodities Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Good Golly claims are located on the north side of Sanca Creek, approximately 11 kilometres south east of the community of Boswell. Old pits are located on the property in one known location along a goethite- and manganese- rich quartz vein. Since 2005, the property has been explored by Kootenay Gold Inc.. In 2010, a program of rock geochemistry and prospecting as well as soil geochemistry was completed. These programs were successful in delineating additional limonite rich quartz veins, up to 2 metres wide, which contained anomalous gold.

The area is underlain by two phases of Cretaceous granite: the coarsely porphyritic Mount Skelly pluton and the Sanca stock, a younger biotite- rich phase. Sedimentary rocks, probably belonging to Proterozoic Creston formation of the Purcell Supergroup, have been metamorphosed and assimilated along the intrusion margin, and metamorphosed to mica schist and slate further from the contact.

Mineralization occurs with shearing in the granite and is characterized by argillic alteration zones with strong manganese, sericite and carbonate mineralization. These zones range in size, with the largest being more than 5 metres wide. Quartz veining is characterized as dense masses of quartz crystals with large vugs and massive limonite and pyrite with minor galena and arsenopyrite. Brecciation is common with in these zones.

In 2005, the best sample returned 434.9 parts per billion gold from a continuation of the shear, approximately 550 metres, down slope of the main showing (Assessment Report 28267).

In 2006, rock sampling of the main showing returned three samples over 1000 parts per billion gold with a maximum of 7664.5 parts per billion gold (sample GG-27; Assessment Report 29059)

In 2010, sample SK10-148 returned 7195 parts per billion gold, other samples returned up to 11 parts per million gold (Assessment Report 31657).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 28267, 29059, 29977, 31657
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1999-19 by Edward Brown)
EMPR PFD 812507, 841759

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