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File Created: 14-Dec-1990 by Jim M. Britton (JMB)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name G.S.B. Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104B049
Status Showing NTS Map 104B08W
Latitude 056º 26' 38'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 15' 32'' Northing 6256196
Easting 422391
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The G.S.B. showing consists of a well-foliated 5 metre wide zone of galena, sphalerite, pyrite and possibly chalcopyrite mineraliza- tion in grey-green, hornblende-phyritic andesitic lapilli tuff to tuff breccia. THe zone strikes 126 degrees, dips 80 degrees south- west and is of unknown length and depth. Mineralization occurs as blebs, stringers, and disseminations.

Host rocks are provisionally assigned to the Upper Triassic Stuhini Gorup, but may be Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group.

Within one kilometre east and west of the G.S.B. showing are small gossans with quartz veins and malachite staining including traces of chalcopyrite. It is not known whether all this mineraliza- tion is contemporaneous.

A grab sample of the G.S.B. showing analysed by the Geological Survey Branch returned; 0.39 grams per tonne gold, 1000 grams per tonne silver, 0.11 per cent copper, 8.49 per cen lead, and 5.78 per cent zinc (personal communication with J.M. Britton, 1990).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 199-209
EMPR OF 1988-4
EMPR PFD 804027, 804216

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