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

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NMI 103P13 Ag3
Name NABOB, GALENA, SILVER BOW, NABOB (L. 4547), NABOB NO. 2 (L. 4548) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P091
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W
Latitude 055º 59' 32'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 53' 10'' Northing 6205568
Easting 444725
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Nabob showing is located on the north fork of Glacier Creek, 9 kilometres northeast of Stewart. Several showings were explored in this area between 1910 and 1923.

A 0.3 metre wide quartz breccia vein, striking 010 degrees and dipping 75 degrees west, is hosted in argillite of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). It contains a small amount of pyrite and chalcopyrite. Another vein in the vicinity, also hosted in argillite, is up to 0.15 metre wide and is mineralized with galena and sphalerite.

In 1919, the Nabob group of claims were staked. In 1923, an opencut just above a trail at 823 metres elevation revealed a small brecciated vein. A crosscut tunnel was faced up about 15 metres below this which will have to be driven about 6 metres to intersect the vein. In 2006, Teuton Resources Corp. completed 228.1 line-kilometres of a helicopter-borne AeroTEM II electromagentic and magnetic survey on their Silver Bell property which covers the showing area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1919-N70; *1923-A75; 1929-C506,C507
EMPR ASS RPT 28406
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 MEM 32, p. 43
GSC SUM RPT 1910, p. 78
GSC OF 864; 2931; 2996

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