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File Created: 30-Apr-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P12,11 Pb3
Name SUMMIT, YUKON, NO NAME Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P073
Status Showing NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 44' 31'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 30' 37'' Northing 6177477
Easting 467964
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Summit showing is located 2.0 kilometres east of the Kitsault River, 29.5 kilometres due north of Alice Arm. The showing was investigated by trenching and tunnelling between 1921 and 1934.

The showing is hosted in porphyritic andesitic tuffs and breccias of the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. The showing consists of stringers of quartz, carbonate and chlorite mineralized with pyrite, and minor galena and sphalerite. The stringers are up to 10 centimetres wide in zones, up to 1.8 metres wide, of fractured andesite that generally strike 040 degrees and dip 60 degrees west. Shear zones, up to 3.7 metres wide, striking 010 degrees in andesite contain similar mineralization.

The mineralization is best developed in a fine grained tuff bed within a sequence of coarse breccias. A 1.7 metre chip sample assayed 0.34 gram per tonne gold, 41 grams per tonne silver, 1.1 per cent lead and 3.6 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930, page 98).

The workings are between 884 and 914 metres elevation and are southeast of a small draw that extends northeastward and is aligned with the upper part of Bluebird Creek. A trail up Bluebird Creek can be followed across the bare top of the ridge to a cabin at the edge of a small lake at 884 metres elevation (ca. 1951). Another route to the area is by trail northward along the ridge from the upper cabin on Trout Creek trail to Bluebird Creek and thence by the Bluebird trail to the property. Two adits are evident a short distance south of the cabin, and numerous trenches in the area near the cabin. Several veinlets were explored by an adit driven in 1919. Thereafter, prospecting was carried on, mostly by trenching, in 1922 and 1924, 1930 to 1934, and 1949-50. An adit about 213 metres south of the cabin has been driven 52 metres northwestward and crosses several veinlets, but fewer than are exposed at the surface. Another adit, about 61 metres south of the cabin, is driven 6 metres westward does not cross any veinlets.

During 2010 through 2019, Dolly Silver Corporation explored the area as apart of the Dolly Varden property. A complete property exploration history can be found at the Dolly Varden (MINFILE 103P 188) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1921-52; 1923-58,59; *1930-97,98; 1931-39; 1932-56; 1933-50; 1934-B17; *1951-91
EMPR ASS RPT 9564, 15126
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, pp. 74,80,87
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
Garrow, T. (2011-09-05): Technical Report - Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-03-18): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-05-01): Amended 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-09-30): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property
EMPR PFD 802351, 802355

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