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MINFILE No  093L 270
File Created: 20-Nov-1986 by Gary R. Foye (GRF)
Last Edit:  25-Jun-1988 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI
Name SILVER KING 1 Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 093L059
Status Showing NTS Map 093L09E
Latitude 054º 34' 55'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 126º 14' 27'' Northing 6051772
Easting 678308
Commodities Zinc, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Jurassic Hazelton Group. The Silver King 1 occurrence consists of three shear zones, within a width of 69 metres, in andesite breccia. It is reported that mineralized quartz seams occur on the footwall of all the shears. In one shear, a width of 23 centimetres of quartz containing sphalerite was exposed.

Bibliography
EM OF 2001-03
EMPR MAP 69-1
EMPR PF (Lay, D., (1937): Silver King and No. 1 Fraction, EMPR AR Special Report)
GSC BULL 270
GSC OF 351
EMPR PFD 15827, 15828, 670163, 673750, 674303, 674304
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