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MINFILE No 103P 123

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	12-Apr-2012	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI	103P5 Pb1
Name	BILLY BARTON	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103P043
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103P05E, 103P06W, 103P11W, 103P12E
Latitude	055º 29' 56''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	129º 30' 00''	Northing	6150423
		Easting	468414
Commodities	Zinc, Lead, Silver, Gold	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Stikine, Bowser Lake

Capsule Geology

The Billy Barton showing is located on the east slope of Esperanza Mountain, about 1.75 kilometres north-northwest of Alice Arm.

The area is underlain by Middle to Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group sediments. The sediments dip moderately to steeply southwest and northeast as a result of being deformed into closely spaced northwest-trending folds.

The showing consists of a series of irregular lenticular quartz veins, 0.025 to 0.30 metre wide, which are exposed in a tunnel 27 metres long. The veins, hosted in argillite, parallel bedding and jointing. The veins contain sparse galena, sphalerite and pyrite. A selected grab sample from an adit dump containing sorted ore assayed trace gold, 48 grams per tonne silver, 1.0 per cent lead and 3.0 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929, page 84).

In 1929, claim owners J. Peacock and T. Calfa explored the veins via a 27 metre tunnel and two short crosscuts.


Bibliography	EMPR AR *1929-84 EMPR BULL 63 EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4 EMPR MAP 8 EMPR OF 1986-2; 1994-14 GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A GSC MEM 175, p. 54 GSC OF 864; 3272