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File Created: 02-Apr-1986 by Garnet L. Dawson (GD)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P12 Ag9
Name SOUTH MUSKATEER, MUSKATEER, PORTHES (L. 4067), ARMES (L. 4068), SOUTH MUSKETEER Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P063
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 41' 47'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 30' 33'' Northing 6172407
Easting 467996
Commodities Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The South Muskateer occurrence lies on the east bank of the Kitsault River, 24 kilometres north of Alice Arm. The area has been explored since 1916 for its silver-lead-zinc mineralization.

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

The showing comprises a volcanogenic silver-zinc-lead barite exhalative deposit hosted in propylitic, silica and carbonate altered andesitic tuffs of the Hazelton Group. The deposit strikes between 041 and 048 degrees and dips are variable between 62 degrees southeast and 72 degrees northwest. It has been traced along strike for 274 metres and downdip for 259 metres with an average width of 3.7 metres.

The mineralogy of the South Muskateer is similar to the Torbrit (103P 191) and Moose-Lamb (103P 008) deposits. Mineralization consists of pyrite, sphalerite, galena with minor chalcopyrite and traces of pyrargyrite, argentite and tetrahedrite in a gangue of quartz, calcite, barite, celestite, hematite, jasper, siderite, magnetite and chlorite. Surface sampling resulted in assay values between 0.3 to 822.7 grams per tonne silver (George Cross Newsletter No.147, 1970).

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 1916-79; 1918-60; 1922-353; 1923-386; *1951-A99-A101
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR ASS RPT 21562
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224,327-330; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR GEM 1971-125,126
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Mitchell, M.A. (1973): Geology Report; Dolly Varden Mines Ltd. Annual Reports 1971, 1972)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Dolly Varden Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
GCNL #147, 1970
W MINER Aug. 1970
Devlin, B.D. (1985): 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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