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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 Ag13
Name MIMICO Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 58' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 54' 14'' Northing 6204315
Easting 443599
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Mimico showing is located on the south fork of Glacier Creek, 7 kilometres northeast of Stewart. A vein was explored here by trenching and tunnelling in 1922 and 1923.

The showing is comprised of a 0.10 to 0.30 metre wide quartz vein striking 020 degrees and dipping 60 degrees west. The vein is hosted in argillite of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). Locally, the vein contains massive pyrite, galena and sphalerite up to 0.30 metre. Grab samples of the purest galena have assayed up to 5345 grams per tonne silver and 87.2 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1922, page 75).

In 1922, at a vertical depth of 10 metres below the surface exposure a tunnel had been driven 21 metres and a crosscut driven to the right for 3.6 metres. The continuation of the crosscut later in 1922 intersected the vein. By 1923, about 53 metres of underground work had been completed.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1922-N75; 1923-A73,A74; 1925-A84
EMPR ASS RPT 37511, 39167
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983, pp. 149-163; 1984, pp. 316-341; 1985, pp. 217, 218; 1986, pp. 81-102; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMR MP CORPFILE (Mimico Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP *215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 131
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996
McCrea, J.A. (2020-10-20): Technical Report on the Dunwell Property, Skeena Mining Division, British Columbia, Canada

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