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File Created: 05-Jun-1989 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P13 Ag9
Name ALICE - BEN BOLT, ALICE NO. 2 (L. 5253), ALICE FR. (L. 5254), ALICE NO. 1 (L. 5257), ALICE NO. 3 FR. (L. 5264) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 56' 56'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 53' 28'' Northing 6200750
Easting 444351
Commodities Zinc, Gold, Silver, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Insular Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Alice-Ben Bolt showing is located at the headwaters of the south fork of Glacier Creek (Albany Creek), 6 kilometres east-northeast of Stewart. A vein carrying polymetallic mineralization was discovered here while investigating the southern portion of the Portland Canal fissure zone.

The showing consists of a 0.10 to 0.46 metre wide vein hosted in argillite of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). The vein occurs near the southwestern margin of an augite diorite stock. The vein is exposed in a trench for a length of 6.4 metres and is well mineralized with pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite. A representative sample assayed 4.1 grams per tonne gold, 189 grams per tonne silver, 0.7 per cent copper and 8.7 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1932, page 591).

During 1932, opencutting, stripping and general prospecting was carried out by W. Hobill of Stewart. This work was mainly carried out in a deep draw extending southeasterly from the Jumbo claim (Lot 774, Ben Bolt showing (103P 080)) through the Alice No. 2 claim (Lot 5253). Five cuts were excavated along a distance of about 183 metres between 861 and 893 metres elevation. Near the easterly boundary of the Alice claim, at 914 metres elevation, trenching uncovered a new vein for 6.4 metres (see description above). Further trenching on the projection of this vein, at 952 metres elevation, has uncovered a width of 3 metres of quartz stringers. This vein strikes at an angle of about 040 degrees to the main zone and should intersect with its projection in the draw at about 305 metres southeasterly of the last trench on the main zone on the Ben Bolt showing.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1930-106; *1932-A59
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
GSC MAP 215A; 307A; 315A; 1385A
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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