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File Created: 28-Sep-2011 by Ted Fuller (TAF)
Last Edit:  30-Nov-2011 by Ted Fuller (TAF)

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NMI
Name WADSWORTH VEIN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map
Status Showing NTS Map 103I15W
Latitude 054º 57' 33'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 50' 09'' Northing 6090260
Easting 510512
Commodities Gold, Tungsten Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Paul Wadsworth discovered coarse gold in a quartz vein on May 23, 1998. The vein was exposed on a logging road. This area was previously explored for molybdenum at the Big Joe (103I 023 MINFILE). This vein was hand mined from a 14 metres length to a depth of about 1 metre. The hostrock is coarse grit and pebble conglomerate and greywacke which contains metamorphic muscovite. The strata strike 060 degrees and dip 30 degrees southeast. The Wadsworth vein strikes 175 degrees and dips 80 degrees east. Granodiorite is exposed 150 metres southwest of the vein.

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Vein Interval Gold in Wallrock (ppb) Gold in Vein (ppb) Tungsten in Vein %

0 m South 6 16 10.5

3 m South 5 14 17.3

6 m South 338 27 2.31

9 m South 1840 10993 g/t 0.78

12 m South 11 792 0.34

15 m South 36 33 2.23

(Exploration and Mining in BC 1999, page 55)

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Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1999 p.9, 53-57

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