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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Jun-2022 by Niel Hugo (NH)

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NMI 104M15 Pb1
Name GRIDIRON Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104M096
Status Past Producer NTS Map 104M15W
Latitude 059º 55' 56'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 134º 56' 22'' Northing 6643865
Easting 503385
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Arsenic, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Nisling, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Gridiron adit is located about 9 metres above the western shore of Bennett Lake on a west-trending shear zone.

The shear zone occurs in rock of the Devonian to Middle Triassic Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite near the contact margins of the Coast Plutonic Complex and the Intermontane Belt. These rocks comprise chlorite feldspar gneiss, schist, marble and hornfels feldspar porphyry. The east-west trending adit follows a crushed zone of quartz and talcose matter carrying several per cent galena, tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, pyrite and minor sphalerite.

A clearly defined quartz vein, about 0.2 metres wide, near the adit portal, was reported (1901) to carry high gold and silver values. In 1901, 68 tonnes of ore were mined producing 2582 grams of silver and 156 grams of gold. A sample of the quartz vein taken in 1982 assayed 3.2 grams per tonne gold, 315 grams per tonne silver, 2.05 per cent lead and 1.34 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 10425).

This property is located on the west side of Bennett Lake, about 9.7 kilometres from the town of Bennett. Four unsurveyed claims were owned by Messrs. Whitefield and Hildebrand. Development work, done around 1901, consists of a 34-metre-long adit driven from a point approximately 9 metres above the lake level.

In 1981, the Ange 1 and 2 claims were staked by Du Pont Canada Exploration on the basis of a gold rich soil sample taken from the workings. Follow up work consisted of both soil and rock sampling. A total of 27 soil -, 6 rock - and 1 stream sediment samples were collected during 1981. Evidence of an old working lies along the lake east of ANGE 1 within the BE 1 claim. Soil sampling was carried out on a 25-metre spacing along the higher slopes of ANGE 1. Rock samples were collected at random sites throughout the property A lack of stream sediments due to the steep gradients of the creeks prevented further sampling of this nature.

See Rohan (104M 111) for related work in the area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1901-985; 1904-55
EMPR ASS RPT *6882, 6883, *7417, 9454, *10425
EMPR BULL 105
EMPR EXPL 1978-267; 1979-295; 1981-40
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 185-190; 1987, pp. 217-231; 1990, pp.
139-144, 153-162
EMPR OF 1988-5
EMPR PF (In 104M General File - Claim map of 104M, 1970)
EMPR PFD 810420, 810421, 810423
EMPR RGS 37, 1993
GSC MAP *19-1957; 94A; 711; 1418A; 1426
GSC MEM 37
GSC OF 427, 2225 p. 42
GSC P 69-01A, pp. 23-27; 78-01A, pp. 69-70; 91-01A, pp. 147-153; 92-01A
GSC SUM RPT 1906, pp. 26-32; 1911, pp. 27-58

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