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File Created: 10-Nov-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103I9 Ag13
Name SILVER BASIN, BASIN, BASIN SILVER Mining Division Omineca
BCGS Map 103I070
Status Showing NTS Map 103I09E
Latitude 054º 36' 24'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 08' 56'' Northing 6051356
Easting 554975
Commodities Silver, Copper, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

Underlying volcanics, which strike 110 degrees and dip 60 degrees south, consist of andesite, dacite and tuffs of the Jurassic Hazelton Group. The rocks are cut by albite and lamprophyre dykes and quartz veins mineralized with tetrahedrite, silver, chalcopyrite, galena, pyrite and bornite. A vein, up to 1 metre wide has been traced intermittently for 1400 metres in an east direction.

The main showing is a quartz vein averaging 30 centimetres wide and 60 metres long with sparse tetrahedrite, galena, pyrite and native silver. A 15 centimetre sample assayed 4457 grams per tonne silver, 10.3 grams per tonne gold and 2.4 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1923). The vein is offset by minor cross faults.

A 30 centimetre wide, 30 metre long vein containing narrow seams of tetrahedrite and bornite lies 520 metres to the east. A 33 centi- metre channel sample assayed 333 grams per tonne silver and 1.0 per cent copper (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 212).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1923-102,103; *1924-88-93; 1925-127; 1926-125; 1928-147
EMPR ASS RPT 15985
EMPR EXPL 1987-C359
EMPR MAP 69-1; 8
EMPR PF (Rpt by Elmendorf, W.J., 1924; Map by J. Willman, Feb. 1929)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Brent Exploration Ltd - Statement of Material
Facts, Feb. 1973)
GSC MAP 1136A; 1385A; 11-1956; 278A
GSC MEM *212, pp. 17,18; 329, p. 82
GSC P 36-20, pp. 31,32; 36-17
GSC SUM RPT 1925A, p. 113
V STOCKWATCH July 9, 1987
Placer Dome File
Dandy, L. (2012-03-01): Geological, Geochemical and Diamond Drilling Report on the Terrace Property
EMPR PFD 900038

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