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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P6 Cu1
Name BEVERLEY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P043
Status Showing NTS Map 103P06W
Latitude 055º 27' 53'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 27' 07'' Northing 6146600
Easting 471425
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Silica Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I07 : Silica veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Bowser Lake
Capsule Geology

The Beverley occurrence is located approximately 3.0 kilometres southeast of Alice Arm.

The area is underlain by Middle Jurassic to Upper Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group shale, siltstone, argillite, sandstone and conglomerate. These rocks have been variably folded and metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing consists of a shear zone which cuts sandstone and argillite and contains quartz veinlets mineralized with chalcopyrite, pyrite and sphalerite. In addition, it is reported that a number of bull quartz veins crosscut a dioritic dike also occur in this vicinity on the same claim group. These veins strike 115 degrees and dip 30 to 50 degrees south and one vein, exposed in a tunnel, is 0.30 to 0.46 metre wide. The veins lack sulphide mineralization and are referred to as being barren, however, free gold was reported to have come from them (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1923, page 54).

In 1923, the claims covering the showing were owned by L. Reynolds of Alice Arm. A number of bull quartz veins have been exposed by an opencut about 15 metres long and from 3.6 to 4.5 metres deep on the dip of the quartz, continued as a tunnel following one of the quartz veins from 30 to 46 centimetres wide for about 3.6 metres and then turning and crosscutting to the footwall. A shallow winze had also been sunk on the vein in the tunnel but had later been filled with muck.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1923-A54; 1931-40; 1964-25
EMPR ASS RPT 29106
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 54
GSC OF 864; 3273
EMPR PFD 831145

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