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File Created: 13-Mar-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  09-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name KINSKUCH CLAIM 5 Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P064
Status Showing NTS Map 103P11W
Latitude 055º 40' 39'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 23' 01'' Northing 6170249
Easting 475876
Commodities Gold, Silver, Antimony, Arsenic, Mercury Deposit Types H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Kinskuch Claim 5 showing is located near the western shore of Kinskuch Lake, 23 kilometres north of Alice Arm, about 47 kilometres southeast of Stewart.

Mapping on the property outlined a mixed assemblage dominated by fresh massive andesitic tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. The tuffs are generally fine grained with some sections coarsening to lapilli size. The tuffs are interbedded with various tuffaceous sediments, siltstones and minor limestone. The sediments generally form subdued rubble outcrops with little evidence of bedding in place. The limestone weathers a dark rusty brown colour which causes the outcrops to be mistaken for gossans from a distance.

Quartz veining is evident in several places, usually in minor amounts. In an area near the shore of Kinskuch Lake, a narrow quartz vein was exposed for a few metres with a width averaging about 4 or 5 centimetres. It is irregularly mineralized with arsenopyrite and probable allmontite (antimonial arsenic) with abundant arsenic bloom. The vein contains some open spaces in which the botryoidal allmontite is developed. A rock sample of this material (33640) assayed 16.1 grams per tonne gold, 2.2 per cent antimony, 1.4 per cent arsenic, 15.2 grams per tonne silver and 5.2 per cent mercury (Assessment Report 20043). Small in situ occurrences and areas of quartz rubble float may indicate the presence of other small veins. The area in which these small veins are found is weakly propylitically altered and weathers to a rusty soil.

In 1989, Dolly Varden Minerals Inc. carried out a program of reconnaissance geological mapping, prospecting, limited pan concentrate silt sampling and rock sampling.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *20043
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 OF 864
Gale, R.E. (1957): Geology of Kinskuch Lake Area, British Columbia, University of British Columbia M.Sc. Thesis
EMPR PFD 820143, 820164

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