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

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NMI 103P11 Ag7
Name BELLEVUE, BLENHEIM (L.3509), BELLEVUE NO. 1 (L.3508) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P054
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P11W
Latitude 055º 32' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 15' 54'' Northing 6155071
Easting 483277
Commodities Silver, Gold, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Bellevue showing is located just east of the Illiance River, about 15.5 kilometres northeast of Alice Arm. The area was explored for lead and silver in the early 1920s.

The region is underlain by Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group volcanics and sediments situated on the east limb of the north-northwest trending Mount McGuire anticline. These rocks have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing comprises a number of shear zones, generally striking 158 degrees and dipping moderately west, hosted in pyritic porphyritic andesitic tuffs and breccias. The zones locally contain lenses, veins and stringers of quartz mineralized with pyrite, galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite. These are generally parallel to the enclosing shear zones. The main showing is located at the southeast corner of the Blenheim claim (Lot 3509). It consists of a quartz vein, mineralized with galena and tetrahedrite, up to 1.2 metres wide. The vein occurs in the hangingwall of a shear zone, 6.1 to 15.2 metres wide, that has been traced for 1000 metres. This shear zone also contains stringers of quartz, pyrite and galena which occur over a width of 4.9 metres adjacent to the quartz vein of the main showing.

A 4.6 metre chip sample taken from the hangingwall across the shear zone assayed 2.32 grams per tonne gold, 790 grams per tonne silver, 3.4 per cent lead and 5.4 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1920, page 51). In 1921, an adit 97.5 metres long was driven eastward 30 metres below the main showing but failed to intersect any significant mineralization.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1916-71; *1920-51; *1921-G55; 1930-92; 1965-65-68
EMPR ASS RPT 10115
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
EMPR PF (Great Northwest Resources Corp. Prospectus, 1989)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Alice Arm Consolidated Holdings Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 54
GSC SUM RPT 1922, p. 47A
GSC OF 864

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