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File Created: 10-Jan-2006 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  07-May-2007 by Nicole Robinson (NR)

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Name WISHBONE, FOREMORE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104G016
Status Showing NTS Map 104G02W
Latitude 057º 06' 34'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 59' 33'' Northing 6331331
Easting 379325
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Wishbone showing area of the Foremore property is predominantly underlain by the Devono-Mississippian Stikine Assemblage.

The Wishbone area is found north of the north arm of More Creek. The Wishbone group of claims was initially staked in 1980 by Teck Corporation. They performed various geological and geochemical surveys and hand trenching. Exploration prior to 2003 was focused on various styles of precious metal bearing mesothermal veins.

Limited exploration in 2003 by Roca Mines Inc. located precious metal bearing veins (Hollywood showing) and at least one other area that indicates the potential for VMS type mineralization (Waterfall showing). Some known veins were also relocated and float debris from these veins were sampled in order to verify past exploration assays.

The newly discovered Icefall vein is irregular in width up to 6.5 metres and is mainly an iron-carbonate breccia with pyritic portions. Base metal values are low but there is 0.78 gram per tonne gold assay from a grab sample (Assessment Report 27398).

Nearby the Icefall vein is the Hollywood Showing. This showing consists of several blebs and concentrations of visible gold hosted within a thin, 2-3 centimetres in width, iron-carbonate and quartz vein cutting across an older and larger iron-carbonate vein, all hosted in quartz sericite phyllites. The surrounding material assayed is as high as 1.15 grams per tonne gold over a 60 centimetre chip sample (Assessment Report 27398).

The Waterfall Showing consists of stringers and heavy disseminations of pyrite in iron-carbonate altered quartz sericite phyllite. One sample assayed 0.27 gram per tonne gold, 9.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.014 per cent copper (Assessment Report 27398).

See North (104G 148) for further details on Roca Mines Inc’s Foremore property.

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 2003-10; 2004-30-31
EMPR MER 2003-11,12; 2004-13
EMPR ASS RPT 18103, 18105, 19379, 19380, 20402
21936, 22614, 24796, 26559, 27176, *27398
EMPR BULL 104
EMPR OF 1999-2
EMPR PF (Roca Mines Inc. (March 2004): Foremore VHMS-Gold Project, Newsletter No. 6)
PR REL Rota Mines Inc. Jun.30, Jul.18, Aug.26, Sept.2,
Oct, 6,10, Nov.26, 2003; Aug.3, Sept.1, Oct.14,25,
Nov.17,18, 2004
N MINER Sept.1, 25, 2003
EMPR PFD 831085

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