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File Created: 22-Oct-2013 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  13-May-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name NORTH SPHALER, TREK Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104G004
Status Showing NTS Map 104G03W
Latitude 057º 02' 35'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 131º 18' 26'' Northing 6324550
Easting 360025
Commodities Gold, Zinc, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The North Sphaler showing area is underlain by Upper Triassic Stuhini Group rocks, which have been intruded by Late Triassic to Early Jurassic monzonitic intrusions, Eocene granitic dikes, sills and stocks and Miocene basaltic and rhyolitic dikes.

In 1989, four contour soil lines were run on the north side of Sphaler Creek by Lorica Resources to test for a projected strike extension of the Gully zone. The North Sphaler Zone, a gold-bearing quartz-chlorite-sulphide vein, was found near one of the two anomalous areas on these lines and trenched.

The showing comprises a 50 to 60 centimetre wide quartz-pyrite-arsenopyrite-sphalerite vein enclosed by intense chlorite altered andesitic tuff and or agglomerate. Chip samples 463825 and 463826, taken across 7.2 metres of vein and alteration from the North Sphaler zone, averaged 2.13 grams per tonne gold and 0.58 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 19479).

Sample 463825 produced a value of 5.4 grams per tonne silver over 5.5 metres (Assessment Report 20956).

Refer to North zone (104G 022) for details of the Trek property work history, of which the North Sphaler showing is part of.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1963-8; 1964-17
EMPR EXPL 1980-471; 1981-72
EMPR FIELDWORK 1975, p. 79; 1988, p. 282
EMPR GEM 1970-60
EMPR OF 1989-8
EMPR PFD 861329, 861331, 861332
EMR MP CORPFILE (Silver Standard Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 9-1957; 11-1971; 310A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246
Desautels, P. (2011-06-21): NI 43-101 Technical Report for the Trek Property

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