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File Created: 07-Feb-1991 by Carol I. Didson (CID)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name SLATE, WINK Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092J003
Status Showing NTS Map 092J04E
Latitude 050º 01' 36'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 123º 34' 43'' Northing 5541756
Easting 458556
Commodities Gold, Silver, Platinum, Tungsten, Tellurium Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Slate showing is located along Ashlu Creek, southwest of Porterhouse Peak north of Squamish. The property is underlain by a small roof pendant of argillite and rhyolite correlative with the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group and which is enclosed by quartz diorite of the Jurassic to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. Intrusive rocks in this area are locally gneissic. A northwest trending fault, that parallels the Ashlu Creek drainage, strikes through the prospect area.

Mineralization, consisting of fine grained silvery sulphides and tellurides with gold, silver and platinum, occurs in two northwest trending zones parallel to Ashlu Creek. Tungsten has also been identified in drill core, occurring as both scheelite and wolframite.

Of three samples taken, the best graded 0.17 gram per tonne gold, 0.69 gram per tonne silver and 0.069 gram per tonne platinum (Assessment Report 15406).

Bibliography
EM GEOFILE 2000-2; 2000-5
EMPR ASS RPT *15406, 18008
EMPR EXPL 1987-C204
GSC OF 482
GSC P 75-1A, pp. 37-40
EMPR PFD 860788, 860790, 860791

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