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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P12 Cu7
Name KITSOL, KILSOL NO. 1 (L. 3815), KILSOL NO. 2 (L. 3814), BONANZA Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P063
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 41' 38'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 30' 48'' Northing 6172131
Easting 467732
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
H04 : Epithermal Au-Ag-Cu: high sulphidation
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Kitsol prospect is located on the west bank of the Kitsault River, 24 kilometres north of Alice Arm. The South Musketeer (103P 019), probably an extension of the Kitsol, lies just across the river on the east bank. The Kitsol prospect was extensively explored by Dolly Varden Mines in the early 1970s.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanic and sedimentary rocks 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 and has been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The deposit comprises a stratiform volcanogenic silver-lead-zinc barite exhalite horizon hosted in Hazelton Group andesitic tuffs and breccias that have been variably propylitized, silicified and carbonatized. The horizon strikes north-northeast for 91 metres, dips near vertically, is approximately 5.5 metres wide and has been traced downdip for 107 metres.

The mineralogy of this deposit is similar to that of the Torbrit (103P 191), displaying colliform-banded quartz, calcite, barite and jasper mineralized with pyrite, marcasite, galena, minor sphalerite, minor chalcopyrite and traces of pyrargyrite and native silver.

The deposit averages 340 grams per tonne silver over its 91 metre strike length on the surface (Geology, Exploration and Mining in British Columbia 1973, page 489). A 5.5 metre drillhole intersection 107 metres below the surface outcrop assayed 546.1 grams per tonne silver (Property File - Dolly Varden Mines 1972 Annual Report).

In 1989-90, Dolly Varden Minerals Inc. conducted a comprehensive surface diamond drilling program on portions of the North Star (103P 189), Dolly Varden (103P 188), Torbrit (103P 191) deposits and the V zone (103P 010). Two holes were drilled on the Kilsol No. 1 claim (Lot 3815) totalling 439.5 metres.

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.

In 2014, drilling yielded intercepts of up to 712.2 grams per tonne silver over 25.95 metres, including 1496.8 grams per tonne silver over 9.01 metres in hole DV14010 (Higgs, A.A. (2015-05-01): Amended 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property).

In 2015, drilling yielded intercepts including 21.6 grams per tonne silver over 7.0 metres in hole DV15018, 60.3 grams per tonne silver over 3.0 metres in hole DV15021 and 99.5 and 16.2 grams per tonne silver over 0.5 and 5.2 metres, respectively, in hole DV15020 (Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property).

In 2018, diamond drilling yielded intercepts including 302.2 and 332.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.26 and 0.45 per cent lead with 0.41 and 0.22 per cent zinc over 31.00 and 22.15 metres (30.38 and 21.81 metres true width) in holes DV18131 and DV18135, respectively (Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-80; 1916-77,78; 1918-67
EMPR ASS RPT 2887, 20900, 21562
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR GEM 1972-506,507; 1973-489
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224,327-330; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (*Dolly Varden Mines Ltd. Annual Reports, 1971,1972; Mitchell, M.A. (1973): Geology Report)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Dolly Varden Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
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

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