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File Created: 30-Apr-2008 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  24-Jun-2013 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name MAC, MAC DISCOVERY, MAC WEST, TEN FT. Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104J048
Status Showing NTS Map 104J08W
Latitude 058º 28' 25'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 29' 29'' Northing 6482412
Easting 413015
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Mac property is located on the west slopes of Snow Peak about 22 kilometres west of the community of Dease Lake. Access is south on a 4 by 4 road up Dease Creek from Laketon to an ATV trail going south to Snow Peak.

The showing area is underlain by Lower Jurassic Laberge Group (Takwahoni Formation) phyllitic slates and Late Cretaceous Snow Peak pluton granitic rocks. Several areas of quartz veining, some sheeted, were observed cutting the slates. Pyritic mafic dikes crosscut the granitic rocks and are up to two metres wide and have been traced for 1000 metres.

Five quartz veins were bulk sampled and using gravity concentration and a microscope to view the concentrates, pyrite, sphalerite, galena, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite, in order of abundance, were observed. Native gold and silver were also evident (Assessment Report 28972).

In 2006, owner M. Swenson conducted prospecting and collected 20 kilogram bulk samples of vein material from five areas; forty samples were viewed under a microscope.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *28309, *28972
EMPR OF 1996-11
GSC OF 707; 2779
GSC BULL 504
GSC MAP 9-1957; 21-1962; 1418A; 1712A; 1713A
GSC SUM RPT 1925, Part A, pp. 33A-99A
EMPR PFD 826057, 826058

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