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File Created: 05-Mar-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MARMOT Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H093
Status Showing NTS Map 103H13E
Latitude 053º 56' 09'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 31' 18'' Northing 5976500
Easting 465750
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Nisling
Capsule Geology

The Marmot showing is situated on an upper ridge side east of Ecstall River, 59 kilometres west-southwest of Kitimat and 67 kilometres southeast of Prince Rupert.

The showing is within the Ecstall belt, a north-northwest trending, high-grade metamorphic belt bounded by the elongate mid-Cretaceous Ecstall pluton on the west and the Paleocene Quottoon pluton on the east (Aldrick 2001). Gareau (1991a) divided stratified rocks of the belt into four principal units: metavolcanic rocks, metasedimentary rocks, quartzite and layered gneiss.

Kingfisher Resources Ltd.'s 2019 exploration program was designed to test the area where possible for mineralized rhyolite horizons. The program included several contour soil lines consisting of 110 samples. Rock sampling consisted of 28 samples and was focused on altered quartz-sericite rhyolite schists. At the north end of the Marmot Zone, sampling returned up to 58 parts per billion Au (sample 3440021) in rusted rhyolites with laminated sulfides and 662 parts per million Zn (sample 3440028) in rusted volcanics with up to 30 per cent massive pyrite (Assessment Report 38705).

The Marmot showing was part of a 2019 airborne VTEM survey conducted over Kingfisher's Ecstall property (Assessment Report 39155).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *38705, 39155, 39478
EMPR EXPL 1987-C355,C356
EMPR FIELDWORK 1999, pp. 249-265; 2000, pp. 279-306; 2001, pp. 151-170
EMPR OF 1992-3, 1992-9, 1998-10, 1999-2, 2002-03
EMPR PFD 882587
GAC 1983 Field Trip Guidebook No. 14 62 p.
GSC MAP 23-1970; 1385A, 1868A
GSC P 70-41
UBC Thesis: Geology of the Ecstall-Quaal Rivers Area, BC (1958)
Dyakowski, C. (2021-01-27): Technical Report on the Ecstall Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia

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