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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Aug-1991 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI 093M6 Zn1
Name ACE 5, ACE, JACK OF HEARTS, JACK OF SPADES Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093M034
Status Showing NTS Map 093M06W
Latitude 055º 23' 56'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 127º 17' 47'' Northing 6140501
Easting 607888
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Ace 5 showing is located on the southern peak of the Natlan Peak mountain range, 27 kilometres northeast of Hazelton.

Although details of the occurrence are not known, silver-lead- zinc mineralization is reportedly present at this location (#248 on Map 69-1). Galena-sphalerite mineralization is also reported in this area from earlier assessment work (Assessment Report 1066).

This occurrence is possibly the Jack of Hearts showing (093M 034) which is reported to occur on Twenty Mile Mountain. Although there is no Twenty Mile Mountain on modern maps, the location is thought to be east of Eighteen Mile Creek, 25 kilometres east of Hazelton.

The area is underlain by Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group greywackes and argillites intruded by granodiorite of the Late Cretaceous Bulkley Intrusions. The area is locally highly pyritic, with widespread but low-grade chalcopyrite and uncommon molybdenite.

According to the Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1909, 45 centimetres of sphalerite, seamed with thin bands of greyish white magnesian ankerite and minor galena, occur in quartz gangue which appears to follow a bedding plane in altered sedimentary rocks. The sedimentary rocks strike 030 degrees, dipping 50 degrees northwest. The footwall consists of rusty argillite and the hangingwall of hard silicified sandstone.

Bibliography
EMPR MAP 69-1 (#248)
EMPR ASS RPT *1066
GSC SUM RPT *1909, p. 65
GSC OF 2322
EMPR PFD 681489

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