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File Created: 19-Dec-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  09-Jan-2013 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FROG CREEK Mining Division Alberni
BCGS Map 092F013
Status Showing NTS Map 092F03W
Latitude 049º 10' 38'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 27' 00'' Northing 5450047
Easting 321445
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Frog Creek occurrence is located in the northern head waters of Olympic Creek, a tributary of the Kennedy River.

The area is underlain by Karmutsen Formation volcanics of the Upper Triassic Vancouver Group, which have been intruded by the Early to Middle Jurassic Island Intrusions consisting of granodiorite to quartz diorite. The Karmutsen rocks consist of andesitic to basaltic flows, tuffs and volcaniclastics. Northwest trending fault shear zones of Tertiary age cut the rocks.

Locally, quartz veins host pyrite and chalcopyrite mineralization.

In 1986, K. Gourley staked the Blaster claim and completed a prospecting program and a geochemical silt survey the following year. From 1987 to 1988, Nationwide Gold Mines and Golden Spinnaker Minerals optioned the property and completed programs of trenching, VLF-EM surveys and diamond drilling. In 1988, bulk sampling and fourteen diamond drillholes, totalling 819 metres, were completed on the Elite 1 vein and the nearby Rachel vein. In 1991, Kancana Ventures optioned the property. From 1993 to 1995, the property was returned to and later prospected by K. Gourley. In 1995, a 0.20 metre chip sample returned values of 2.6 grams per tonne gold and 2.7 grams per tonne silver (JK-167; Assessment Report 25493).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 15935, 15949, 18218, 21563, 22456, 22971, 23451, 23931, *25493
EMPR PFD 831063

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