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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Jul-2009 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 093L15 Ag2
Name DEBENTURE (L.6310), WANDA Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L096
Status Prospect NTS Map 093L15W
Latitude 054º 58' 50'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 52' 36'' Northing 6094690
Easting 635882
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Debenture (Lot 6310) and five other Crown grants (Lots 6311–6315) are located on the south side of Debenture Creek, on the northeast boundary of Babine Mt. Park.

The claims are underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics of the Telkwa Formation comprised mainly of andesite, rhyodacite flows, breccia and tuff. The volcanics are intruded by a Late Cretaceous quartz diorite sill about 6 metres thick that strikes northwest and dips between 40 to 45 degress to the southwest. The intrusion cuts chlorite-epidote altered lapilli tuffs.

Mineralization consists of fracture fillings in the numerous fault/fracture systems in the volcanics. The No. 2 vein occurs in a fracture that crosscuts the bedding and dips 78°. The volcanics are sericitized and partly silicified and host mineralized seams and fairly massive bands of disseminated galena with minor sphalerite. The vein is mineralized with galena seams and stringers within brecciated vein quartz and wallrock.

The No. 1 vein is exposed in a steep inaccessible bluff and dips 75° south. It was traced intermittently for 61 metres.

The property was originally staked in 1913 and a single crosscut tunnel was driven in 1917. Exploration was continued by Wanda Mines and Explorations Limited in 1966 with a geological mapping program. A grab sample of the vein material, representative of about 0.45 metres of the crosscut tunnel, assayed 1530 grams per tonne Ag, 17.40 per cent Pb, 6.95 per cent Zn and 0.08 per cent Cu (Property File Cyprus Anvil Mitchell, J.A., 1966).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-108; 1915-77; 1916-91,130; 1964-52
EMPR ASS RPT *1643
EMPR FIELDWORK *1987, p. 191; 1988, pp. 195-208; 1991, pp. 93-101
EMPR MAP 69-1
EMPR PF Cyprus Anvil (unknown (unknown): Geological Cross Section - Debenture Creek area; unknown (unknown): Map Showing Westerly Exposure of Vein - Debenture Creek area; Mitchell, J.A. (1966-05-03): Prospectus, Wanda Mines and Explorations Ltd.)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Debenture Creek Mines Ltd.; Native Mines Ltd.; Sproatt Silver Mines Ltd.; Wanda Mines and Explorations Ltd.; New Cronin Babine Mines Ltd.)
GSC BULL 270
GSC MAP 671A; 971A
GSC OF 351
GSC P 40-18, p. 5
GSC SUM RPT 1924A, p. 32

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