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File Created: 09-Oct-2012 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  04-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name JOHN PEAKS, UNUK, COUL 4, J GRID Mining Division Liard, Skeena
BCGS Map 104B058
Status Showing NTS Map 104B09W
Latitude 056º 32' 56'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 25' 41'' Northing 6268100
Easting 412200
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The J grid was located on the north flank of Johns Peaks on the Coul 4 and Unuk 1 claims. Interest in the area was based on soils containing up to 120 parts per billion gold and rocks containing up to 0.40 gram per tonne gold collected in 1988 by Hi-Tec personnel (as reported in Assessment Report 19675). A portion of the grid was mapped and sampled but the soil sample results did not substantiate the anomalies outlined in 1988 by Hi-Tec. The area is underlain by Middle to Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group andesite, conglomerates, greywacke sandstones and siltstones. Granges Inc. who worked on the claim group from 1989 to 1994 assumed that gold-anomalous soils were being derived from northeast-trending structures interpreted from airphotos.

At the north end of the Triassic-Jurassic John Peaks diorite intrusions and in surrounding hornfelsed rocks of the Unuk Formation are abundant veins dominated by quartz and epidote. The abundance of sulphide-bearing boulders nearby suggests that a contact metamorphic zone exists around the intrusion (Assessment Report 22113). Sulphides are dominated by pyrite and pyrrhotite, with locally abundant sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite.

Refer to Unuk (104B 083) for details of a common property work history.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 199-209; 1988, pp. 241-250
EMPR OF *1988-4; 1989-10; 1991-21
EMPR PF (Geology Map-1:31250 Scale-Newmont Exploration of Canada Ltd., 1960)
GSC MAP 9-1957; 1418A
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
Lindsay, D., Prowse, N.D. (2021-06-08): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Sib-Corey-North Mitchell Property
EMPR PFD 804238

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