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File Created: 27-Nov-1991 by Steve F. Dudka (SFD)
Last Edit:  27-May-2021 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name GAEL Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 094C015
Status Showing NTS Map 094C03E
Latitude 056º 10' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 03' 54'' Northing 6227445
Easting 371803
Commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Gael occurrence is located at the end of a road just below Beveley Peak, on the north side of Osilinka River, approximately 50 kilometres northwest of the community of Germansen Landing.

At the Gael showing, mineralization occurs within a shear on a cliff face in grey quartzites of the Neoproterozoic Swannell Formation (Ingenika Group). The shear has a well-developed hangingwall and an average strike of 060 degrees. The hangingwall dips 65 to 70 degrees to the southeast. The footwall was not observed, the quartzite grading into siliceous schist and finally into sericite schist. The mineralized shear is thought to have a width of between 1.5 and 3 metres; the zone has also been reported as a breccia (S. Dudka, personal communication, 1992). Silver-mineralized samples were collected from along the structure for 274 metres. Disseminated fine-grained sulphides are accompanied by a high level of silicification and are variably reported to include arsenopyrite, argentite, pyrite, galena, chalcopyrite and scorodite.

In 1979, the highest assay from drill core was 377 grams per tonne silver over 0.66 metre; the highest gold was 0.1 gram per tonne. One selected sample assayed 2095 grams per tonne silver and 0.44 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 7546).

In 1973, R. Hall conducted prospecting on the Gael claims. In 1979, Suzie Mining Explorations Ltd. completed three test X-ray drillholes totalling 15 metres, and rock sampling.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *5008, *7546, 8734
EMPR FIELDWORK *1991, pp. 127-145; 1992, pp. 109-134
EMPR GEOS MAP 2001-4
EMPR OF *1992-11; 1993-2; 1995-6; 1996-19
EMPR PRELIM MAP 9
GBC 2021-01, pp. 105-120
GSC MAP 1030A
GSC MEM 274
GSC OF 864
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