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File Created: 03-Mar-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CHANNEL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103H064
Status Showing NTS Map 103H11W
Latitude 053º 38' 59'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 16' 03'' Northing 5944598
Easting 482321
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Nisling, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Channel showing is situated east of Kitkiatka Creek near the tidewater at Kitkiatka Inlet on the Douglas Channel, 61.8 kilometres southwest of Kitimat and 101 kilometres southeast of Prince Rupert.

It is within the Ecstall Greenstone 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.

The first recorded exploration efforts were in 2019 by Kingfisher Resources Ltd. Sampling was restricted to two areas previously mapped as having quartz-sericite rhyolite schists. Sampling consisted of 40 soil samples, 16 rock samples, and 4 stream sediment samples. Sampling was completed up slope of deactivated logging roads when possible. Soil sampling returned values up to 781.9 parts per million Zn and up to 18.2 parts per billion Au. Soil sampling failed to outline any strongly anomalous zones although west of Kitkiata Creek sampling did return moderately anomalous gold values. Rock sampling returned anomalous Zn values west of Kitkiatka Creek with up to 0.12 per cent Zn (3440001) and near tidewater two showings of chalcopyrite stringer mineralization returned values up to 0.45 percent Cu and 0.40 gram per tonne Au (3440008), and 0.58 per cent Cu and 0.42 gram per tonne Au (3440010). Both samples occurred within biotite-quartz- sericite altered schists and gneisses (Assessment Report 38705).

The Channel showing was part of a 2019 Airborne VTEM survey 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 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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