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File Created: 30-May-2013 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  17-Feb-2015 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name POPEYE, TROPHY Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G013
Status Showing NTS Map 104G03W
Latitude 057º 08' 31'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 24' 25'' Northing 6335750
Easting 354365
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc, Molybdenum Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

This Popeye zone consists of mineralized Upper Triassic Stuhini Group feldspar-porphyritic andesite and Galore Creek Triassic to Jurassic syenite.

Mineralization exposed thus far extends for 65 metres, over an average trenched width of 2.8 metres, along a 042 degree trend. The dominant sulphide mineralization consists of up to 15 per cent disseminated pyrite, although a shear structure in the core of the zone also contains chalcopyrite, sphalerite, and galena with traces of covellite. The volcanics are strongly oxidized near the surface with abundant goethitic and jarositic boxworks. Chlorite, epidote, and potassium feldspar alteration are ubiquitous. Sulphide mineralization is weaker in the syenite, but gold assays are significantly higher, assaying up to 12.8 grams per tonne gold in a representative grab sample (Assessment Report 21061). A chip sample of the Popeye zone shear structure across 55 centimetres assayed 3.67 grams per tonne gold, 2.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.13 per cent lead, 0.096 per cent zinc and 0.05 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 21061).

At the end of the 1990 exploration program of Gigi Resources, the Popeye Zone, which is mostly covered by overburden, remained open along strike to the northeast and southwest.

Refer to Trophy (Ptarmigan) (104G 053) for related details and a common work history.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1964-13
EMPR ASS RPT 623, 17101, 18555, 19783, *21061
EMPR FIELDWORK 1975, p. 79
EMPR OF 1989-8
EMPR P 1989-1
EMR MP CORPFILE (Silver Standard Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 9-1957; *11-1971; 310A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246
GSC P *71-44
EMPR PFD 804373

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