British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Responsible for Housing
News | The Premier Online | Ministries & Organizations | Job Opportunities | Main Index

MINFILE Home page  ARIS Home page  MINFILE Search page  Property File Search
Help Help
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

Summary Help Help

NMI 103P12 Cu7
Name RED POINT NO. 1 (L. 3809), RED POINT, V, V VEIN ZONE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P063
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 41' 27'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 31' 20'' Northing 6171795
Easting 467171
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Red Point showing is located on the north bank of Evindsen Creek, 0.6 kilometre west of the Kitsault River, 24 kilometres north of the town of Alice Arm. This occurrence, first staked in 1913, has been explored extensively for copper and gold.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group. The sequence is folded into the doubly plunging, north-northwest trending Kitsault River syncline. This sequence has been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The Red Point prospect lies near the south end of the "Copper Belt", a 10.0 kilometre long northwest trending gossanous body of plagioclase-hornblende porphyritic andesite of the Hazelton Group. The andesite has been extensively pyritized with variable silicification and sericitization along its length.

The showing is comprised of a 6.0 metre wide zone, trending 175 degrees, consisting of steeply dipping quartz veins up to 1.2 metres wide and silicified zones of greater width. Mineralization consists of disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite, with traces of galena and pods of massive chalcopyrite up to 0.6 metre in width and 1.5 metres in length. Three horizontal diamond-drill holes 23 metres below the outcrop intersected a zone of disseminated pyrite with minor disseminated chalcopyrite.

The first staking in the Dolly Varden area occurred in 1910 with the location of the Red Point No. 1 mineral claim (Lot 3809). In 1916, three diamond-drill holes were put down on the Red Point. The north trending zone is exposed in a series of trenches and several adits. The main crosscut adit on the Red Point, at about 426 metres elevation, contains about 304 metres of workings. It is reported the first 180 metres of the adit was driven at 340 degrees azimuth and the last 131 metres at 300 degrees azimuth. It is mentioned that a short drift was driven near the portal, but that no mineralization of probable ore grade was encountered. On a bluff about 106 metres higher than the adit, sparse chalcopyrite mineralization has been explored by two adits 3 to 6 metres long. These did not encounter mineralization of higher grade than that which is exposed at the surface. An exposure between these adits and the main adit contains sparse disseminated mineralization including minor amounts of galena. Sparse chalcopyrite mineralization is present on the dumps of several trenches, now caved, which are east of the upper adits. Another adit at 649 metres elevation is partly collapsed at the portal and follows a zone striking 205 degrees that contains a very small amount of chalcopyrite.

In 1986, channel sampling resulted in gold assays averaging 5.66 grams per tonne over a width of 4.57 metres and a length of 38.1 metres (Northern Miner - November 3, 1986). In 1989, Dolly Varden Minerals Inc. initiated a comprehensive, multistaged surface exploration program that included 2257 metres of drilling on the Red Point and Red Point Extension (103P 010) showings along with detailed geologic mapping and geochemical sampling of a limited area of the "Copper Belt" alteration.

During 2010 through 2019, Dolly Silver Corporation explored the area as apart of the Dolly Varden property. A complete property exploration history can be found at the Dolly Varden (MINFILE 103P 188) occurrence.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-79-81; *1916-80,81; 1919-369; 1926-82; 1927-77; 1930-96; *1951-A98,A99
EMPR ASS RPT *2887, 7098, 15371, *20033, *20900, *21562
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224,327-330; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2000, pp. 313-326; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR GEM *1970-81-86; 1972-507,508; 1973-489,490
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Forbes, D.G. (1913): Report; Dolly Varden Mines Ltd. Annual Reports for 1970,1972; Pearson, W.N. (1986): Report)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Dolly Varden Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM *175, p. 76
GSC SUM RPT 1921, p. 20A
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
GCNL #147, 1970; #14,#99, 1987; #64, 1989
N MINER *Nov.3, 1986; Jan.30, 1989
W MINER Aug. 1970, pp. 39-42
Devlin, B.D. (1987): Geology and Genesis of the Dolly Varden Silver Camp, Alice Arm Area, Northwestern British Columbia, University of British Columbia M.Sc. Thesis
Garrow, T. (2011-09-05): Technical Report - Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-03-18): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-05-01): Amended 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Higgs, A.A. (2015-09-30): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property
Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY