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File Created: 20-Oct-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  21-Apr-2021 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name WEST, CENTRAL, CABIN Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093F085
Status Showing NTS Map 093F14E
Latitude 053º 52' 55'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 02' 16'' Northing 5972300
Easting 366050
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The West zone of the Cabin Lake property is underlain by Lower to Middle Jurassic volcano-sedimentary rocks of the Hazelton Group to the east, Late Cretaceous andesite belonging to the Kasalka Group to the west, Eocene to Oligocene Endako and Ootsa formations (Nechako Plateau Group) andesite and rhyolite respectively to the south and quartz monzonite of the Late Cretaceous Cabin Lake pluton centered within the claim group.

The West Zone is exposed by several historic trenches and excavations developed during drill pad construction. The zone is characterised by fault-hosted mineralised vein sets striking 325 degrees and dipping steeply toward the west. Veins average from one-centimetre to one-metre in width and alteration grades from unaltered magnetite quartz monzonite at the periphery through magnetite-destructive yellow chert sericite pyrite quartz monzonite to manganese-stained chalcopyrite galena sphalerite crustiform quartz vein material toward the centre.

Alteration related to mineralisation in the West zone is dominated flow-banded silica flooding, hematite-after-magnetite, propylitic chlorite-after-biotite and iron-oxide weathering of sulphide minerals. The occurrence of manganese-oxide is also concurrent with anomalous gold, silver, lead and zinc values.

Mineralisation within the West zone occurs as disseminated and blebby sulphide minerals associated with quartz and quartz-carbonate alteration located near the centre and periphery of fault-controlled veins within quartz monzonite of the Cabin Lake pluton. Sphalerite and galena typically occur together with chalcopyrite as inclusions or as an alteration product in highest-grade areas.

A few hundred metres east is the Central zone where structure orientation and character is similar to the West Zone suggesting a sub-parallel fault-hosted mineralised vein system. Up to 322 grams per tonne silver, 2.48 grams per tonne gold, 3.98 per cent lead and 5.96 per cent zinc occurs dominantly within strongly manganese stained silica-carbonate veins (Assessment Report 33741).

In 2018, DeCoors Mining Corp. completed a geochemical survey over the property containing the occurrence. Sampling returned anomalous results on the occurrence. Rock samples returned values up to 3.11 grams per tonne gold, 27 per cent lead, 1108 grams per tonne silver and 13.6 per cent zinc in historical trench workings (Assessment Report 38037). A float sample (B00261140) from a newly identified sub-cropping vein zone assayed 1.2 grams per tonne gold, 484 grams per tonne silver, 1.28 per cent lead and 0.43 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 38037).

Refer to Cabin (093F 038) for information of the Work History of the Cabin Lake area.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 5983, 6279, 13537, 30020, *33741, *38037
EMPR EXPL 1976-E142; 1977-E186; 1978-E202; 1985-C294; 1992-69-106; 2002-13-28
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 475-481; 1993, pp. 9-14, 39-44; 1994, pp.167-170, 193-197
EMPR OF 1994-19
EMPR PF Rimfire (Nithex Explorations Ltd. (1976-08-27): Claim Map - Cabin Lake Property)
GSC MAP 1131A; 1424A
GSC MEM 324
GSC P 90-1F, pp. 115-120
EMPR PFD 680666

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