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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2021 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI 103O16 Cu2
Name B.C. VERDE, BC VERDE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103O090
Status Showing NTS Map 103O16E
Latitude 055º 49' 48'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 01' 38'' Northing 6187637
Easting 435655
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The B.C. Verde showing is located on a crest of a ridge, just west of a small lake at the headwaters of Georgie River, 12.5 kilometres south of Stewart.

The area is underlain by diorite, minor quartz diorite and granodiorite of the Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex. These rocks have intruded and contain local remnants of Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group (Unuk River Formation) volcanic and sedimentary rocks.

The B.C. Verde showing is within silicified Hazelton Group andesite near the contact with Coast Plutonic Complex diorite and quartz diorite. Several opencuts and trenches expose siliceous lenses 0.91 to 3 metres wide hosting disseminated pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite(?) with associated silver and minor gold values. A rock chip sample across 1.5 metres in a trench assayed 1.07 per cent copper, 69.1 grams per tonne silver, 0.25 per cent zinc and 0.22 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15580). A 15 centimetre wide pyritic quartz vein also occurs on the property striking 155 degrees and dipping 52 degrees southwest.

In 2010 Auramex Resource Corp. carried out a helicopter-borne magnetic and transient electromagnetic survey. Structural analysis and geologic - geophysical compilation and interpretations of the Georgia Mine area and Auramex's Georgie River property was conducted from 2013 to 2018, including Gloria, Glory Extension and Glory Extension 2 and BC Verde Minfile occurrences.

The 2018 exploration program in the Georgia River area by Auramex Resource Corp. consisted of mapping and sampling. Evidence of the mineral potential of the Exdale area is provided both by the encouraging results from the BC Verde mineral occurrence and the rediscovery of the Gloria adit. At BC Verde four out of the seven samples taken returned values in excess of a quarter of a gram of gold per tonne, matched by analogous anomalies in silver and copper. A preliminary assessment, indicates that the samples were taken from significant structural intersections, visible through the overburden using synthetic aperture radar. (Assessment Report 38776).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1921-G60; *1927-C81
EMPR ASS RPT *15580, 32000, 34692, 35850, 37369, *38776
EMPR EXPL 1987-C362,C363
EMPR FIELDWORK 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 88
GSC OF 864; 2996
Metcalfe, P. (2013-02-28): Technical Report on the Georgie River Property
www.auxrc.com
EMPR PFD 820191, 670909, 670910

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