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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P5 SiO2
Name MAY, GOLSKEISH QUARTZ, MAY QUARTZ, BEATRICE, GOLSKEISH QUARRY Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P031
Status Past Producer NTS Map 103P05W
Latitude 055º 21' 22'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 49' 41'' Northing 6134732
Easting 447501
Commodities Gold, Silver, Silica, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I07 : Silica veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Golskeish Quartz mine is located on the south end of Granby Bay on Observatory Inlet, about 7 kilometres south of Anyox. Between 1917 and 1929, the mine periodically supplied the copper smelter at Anyox (103P 021) with gold and silver-bearing silica flux.

The region is underlain by a roof pendant, consisting of volcanic and sedimentary rocks, within the Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex. These rocks have been correlated with the Middle-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group and the Middle Jurassic Bowser Lake Group. The volcanics consist of variably chloritized pillow and massive basalt with minor mafic tuffs. The overlying sediments consist of argillite, siltstone and sandstone with minor chert and limestone. There are two observable phases of folding in the area, an initial north-northeast trending phase followed by a later east-northeast trending phase.

The deposit consists of a 1.8 metre wide milky white quartz vein developed parallel to bedding in pyritic black argillite. The vein and enclosing hostrocks strike 005 to 010 degrees and dip 52 to 55 degrees east. Mineralization is irregularly scattered throughout the vein and consists of (in order of decreasing abundance): sphalerite, galena, pyrrhotite, pyrite, arsenopyrite, tetrahedrite, chalcopyrite, native silver, native gold and electrum. Native silver occurs in galena as rounded blebs and native gold occurs in both galena and quartz.

A total of 47,846 tonnes of ore was mined, primarily between 1918 and 1929, producing 149,109 grams of gold, 822,053 grams of silver and 1,676,477 kilograms of silica.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1916-K253; 1917-F370; *1920-N259; 1921-G47,G271; 1922-N51,N276; 1923-A52; 1924-B290; 1925-A73,A358; 1926-A76,A363; 1927-C67,C396; 1928-C77,C423; 1929-C431
EMPR ASS RPT 23582
EMPR BC METAL MM00747
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR ENG INSP (Mine Plans - 60648, Jan. 1928)
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, p. 215; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR INDEX 3-198
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1987-15; 1994-14
EMPR PF (Pell, J. (1982): Silica Prospects in the Anyox Area, British Columbia; Enfield Resources 1982 Annual Report; Alldrick, D. (1986): Anyox Map; Fox, J.S. (1988): First Summary of Field Work; Taiga Consultants Ltd. (1992): Geological, Geochemical and Geophysical Report on the Anyox Area in 103P 021)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 93
GSC SUM RPT *1922, p. 29A
GSC OF 864; 3453
GCNL #168,#186,#196, 1982

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