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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 103O9 Au1
Name PEDRO GEORGIA, PEDRO, IM, BONUS Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103O080
Status Prospect NTS Map 103O16E
Latitude 055º 45' 11'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 02' 24'' Northing 6179086
Easting 434726
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Pedro Georgia occurrence is located at the confluence of Koris Creek and Georgie River, east of Portland Canal and 17 kilometres south of Stewart.

Regionally, the area lies adjacent to and includes moderately folded volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group intruded by a succession of plutons of the Tertiary Coast Plutonic Complex. Hazelton Group rocks include a variety of sandstones, conglomerates and breccias as well as minor intercalated tuffs, siltstones and flow material. Granodiorite is the dominant rock of the Coast Plutonic Complex but stocks and plutons vary from quartz monzonite, quartz diorite to granite. Numerous dike swarms range in composition from granite, quartz monzonite, granodiorite and quartz diorite.

The Pedro Georgia property is underlain by an assemblage of sheared epiclastic rocks (lapilli tuffs) and andesitic flows of the Hazelton Group intruded by massive granodiorite and related dikes of the Hyder Pluton. The epiclastic rocks consist of angular and unsorted andesitic fragments within either a fine-grained sandstone or tuff matrix. The rocks have been locally subjected to strong shearing movements (150 degree trend with west dips) and are generally altered to a chloritic foliated rock. Calcite and epidote stringers are common. Several fault zones are evident, the most prominent, striking 340 degrees and dipping 35 degrees south, is located along Koris Creek. This pyritic fault zone is up to 6 metres wide and consists of weakly silicified volcanic rock with fragments of altered granodiorite. Sulphide-bearing quartz veins are associated with northwest-trending shears or fracture zones within Hazelton Group rocks near granodiorite intrusive rocks. The shear zones are generally occupied by sericitic to chloritic schists.

An adit follows a narrow sulphide-bearing quartz vein striking 137 degrees and dipping 65 degrees north to vertical at the confluence of Koris Creek and Georgie River. This vein represents part of the Pedro Georgia workings and varies from 1 to 40 centimetres wide. Mineralization consists of variably coarsely crystalline galena, coarse sphalerite, pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and arsenopyrite. Chlorite and calcite occurs along the shear zone. Grab samples of this vein assayed up to 0.20 gram per tonne gold and 300.97 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13350).

Several adits have been developed on nearby mineralized quartz veins, some of which range to 3 metres in width. Recent exploration has re-discovered an upper and lower adit developed on a narrow shear zone containing short discontinuous quartz lenses 1 to 2 metres long and 0.5 metre wide. Sparse chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and pyrite are evident. Grab samples of mineralized quartz vein material assayed up to 1.09 grams per tonne gold and 188.88 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 17705).

Granby Gold Inc. conducted airborne magnetometer and gamma ray spectrometry surveys (and geological interpretation of the same) over their East Georgie River project area, including the Pedro Georgia showing, from 2017 to 2020.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1928-C90; 1931-A41; *1933-A52,A53; 1962-9
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR EXPL 1984-380; 1985-C376; 1986-C430
EMPR FIELDWORK 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR P 2017-1 pp. 61-82; 2020-1 pp. 101-108
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMR MP CORPFILE (Extenuate Gold Mines, Limited)
GEO CAN Vol 34(3) pp. 113-134
GSC MAP 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 102
GSC OF 864; 2996
www.granbygoldinc.com
EMPR PFD 820191

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