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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Jun-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P13 Mo3
Name GOLDSLIDE CREEK, MOS2, JACK, JACKIE, HROTHGAR, WRATH, RED MOUNTAIN Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P092
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13E
Latitude 055º 57' 24'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 42' 53'' Northing 6201487
Easting 455375
Commodities Molybdenum, Copper Deposit Types L05 : Porphyry Mo (Low F- type)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Goldslide Creek showing is located 16 kilometres east of Stewart in the upper cirque of the creek. The area was investigated during the 1960s for molybdenite mineralization. The Red Mountain discovery (103P 086) is located approximately 750 metres up the creek from this showing.

The area is underlain by sediments of the Middle to Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group intruded by Early Jurassic dioritic stocks and dikes of the Gamsby Complex or Goldslide stock.

The showing is underlain by a sequence of thinly laminated and bedded siliceous siltstone, argillite and metaquartzite. The sediments grade from dominantly quartzite to poorly banded, near homogeneous chert. The sediments strike northwest and dip steeply south. Quartz hornblende diorite porphyry occurs along the contact between chert and siliceous sediments. Pyritic zones or veins, striking 025 degrees and dipping vertically, cut variably fractured porphyry and locally extend into the country rock. Quartz veining, propylitic alteration and replacement are widespread. Mineralization consists of molybdenite, pyrite and chalcopyrite. Pyrite and apatite are ubiquitous but are concentrated in mafic phases. The best assay from this area was 0.026 per cent molybdenum, 0.03 per cent copper and trace gold (Assessment Report 7152).

It is possible that the granodiorite at McAdam Point (103P 220) extends to this area and if so the stock would be 137 metres below surface, it is speculated that the porphyry and granodiorite are related.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1967-36,38
EMPR ASS RPT 1588, 6580, *7152, 19166
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996
GCNL #148, 1977
N MINER May 29, 2000 (Gold & Precious Metal Insert)
Falconbridge File

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