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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P13 Ag12
Name LAKEVIEW, CABIN, CAMPBELL, LAKEVIEW NO. 2 (L. 3599), LAKEVIEW NO. 1 (3598), LAKEVIEW NO. 3 (L. 3600), SILVER BELL FRACTION (L. 3601) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Past Producer NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 59' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 53' 53'' Northing 6205485
Easting 443979
Commodities Zinc, Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Lakeview occurrence is located just east of Maude Gulch, 8 kilometres northeast of Stewart. Various veins have been explored for base and precious metals in this area since 1906.

This area is underlain by argillite and siltstone of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). These sediments lie on the west limb of an open anticline which trends north. A small augite diorite stock intrudes the sediments to the south.

The showing consists of a number of veins and shear zones of which two, the Cabin and the Campbell veins, are the most significant. The Cabin vein, 0.6 to 1.5 metres in width, strikes 108 degrees for 93 metres and dips 68 degrees southwest, within sheared wallrock. Mineralization consists of massive to disseminated pyrite, galena and sphalerite in a quartz gangue. An 18 metre long, 0.013 to 0.208 metre wide band of massive galena and sphalerite is developed along the hangingwall. A composite chip sample from this band over a length of 13.7 metres and an average width of 0.114 metre assayed 1.37 grams per tonne gold, 1289 grams per tonne silver, 0.8 per cent copper, 8.5 per cent lead and 10.5 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1937, page B20).

The Campbell vein, 55 metres southeast of the Cabin vein, strikes 123 to 137 degrees for 98 metres adjacent to a parallel lamprophyre dike and dips 40 to 50 degrees southwest. The vein, 0.36 to 1.2 metres wide, is mineralized with sparse galena, sphalerite, pyrite and trace tetrahedrite in a quartz gangue. This may be the southeastern extension of the Cabin vein.

A 2.4 to 3.0 metre wide shear zone just east of the Campbell vein contains quartz lenses and stringers mineralized with galena, sphalerite, pyrite and tetrahedrite.

Between 1913 and 1936, 60 tonnes were mined from surface and underground workings with an average grade of 4.7 grams per tonne gold, 2734 grams per tonne silver and 11.5 per cent lead.

In 2006, Teuton Resources Corp. completed 228.1 line-kilometres of a helicopter-borne AeroTEM II electromagentic and magnetic survey on their Silver Bell property which covers the showing area. During 2017 through 2020, Singer Resources Inc. and American Creek Resources Ltd. completed programs of geochemical sampling, a 13.5 line-kilometre induced polarization survey and a 438.5 line-kilometres airborne magnetic and LiDAR survey on the area as the Dunwell property.

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EMPR PFD 752723

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