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File Created: 30-Oct-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-1989 by Laura L. Duffett (LLD)

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NMI 103I8 Cu3
Name ST. PAUL, X, ANNIE LAURIE, PTARMIGAN, THORN Mining Division Omineca, Skeena
BCGS Map 103I048
Status Showing NTS Map 103I08W
Latitude 054º 28' 54'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 128º 25' 36'' Northing 6037266
Easting 537146
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead, Zinc, Tungsten Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I12 : W veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

A 4.5 to 6.0 metre wide, east trending felsite dyke cuts massive biotite granodiorite and lamprophyre dykes of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. Quartz veins, 0.2 to 1.4 metres wide, occur for several hundred metres along either side of the dyke.

The St. Paul vein dips 40 degrees north and is mineralized with pyrite, chalcopyrite, galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite and gold. The vein occurs on the footwall side of the dyke, over a distance of 670 metres. A 7 centimetre channel sample of a sulphide rich zone, up to 1 metre wide, assayed 15.8 grams per tonne gold, 92.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.04 per cent copper, 1.88 per cent lead and 0.08 per cent zinc. A 1.4 metre channel sample assayed 5.7 grams per tonne gold, 3.43 grams per tonne silver, 0.006 per cent copper, 0.11 per cent lead and 0.09 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 13104).

A quartz vein, located about 250 metres to the southeast is also mineralized with scheelite and barite. Scheelite nodules as large as 7.62 centimetres in diameter were reported from this vein on the St. Paul claim.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1914-114; 1918-50,51; 1924-49; *1925-70,71; 1926-75; 1929-78; *1930-78; 1933-45
EMPR ASS RPT 13104, 14560, *15115
EMPR BULL 10 (Rev), p. 58; 1, 1932, pp. 21,22,30
EMPR EXPL 1984-375; 1985-C373; 1986-C427
EMPR MAP 69-1; 8
EMPR OF 1991-17
EMPF PF (*DiSpirito, F. et al (1986): Geophysical, Geochemical and Geological Surveys on the Thorn Project in Prospectus for Castello Resources Ltd., July 13, 1987)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Seastar Resource Corporation)
GSC EC GEOL #17, p. 43
GSC MAP 278A; 1136A; 11-1956; 1385A
GSC MEM *205, pp. 28,29; 329, p. 78
GSC P 36-17, pp. 47-49; 36-20, pp. 25,26
GSC SUM RPT 1925A, p. 118; 1926A, p. 41

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