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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 Cu4
Name FOX Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P053
Status Prospect NTS Map 103P11W
Latitude 055º 32' 45'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 26' 09'' Northing 6155620
Easting 472500
Commodities Zinc, Silver, Gold, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I10 : Vein barite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Fox showing is located between Gumas and Washout creeks, about 11.0 kilometres northeast of Alice Arm.

The region is underlain by an assemblage of volcanics and sediments comprising the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. This assemblage has been folded into a north-northwest trending anticline (Mount McGuire anticline) and regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing consists of a quartz-barite vein which has been traced west for about 183 metres in Hazelton Group porphyritic andesite. The vein is reported to contain irregular disseminations of sphalerite, pyrite and minor galena. A chip sample taken across 0.61 metre of the vein assayed trace gold, 6.8 grams per tonne silver, nil copper, trace lead and 5.1 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929, page 89).

In 1929, the vein was traced for about 183 metres by three opencuts in a westerly direction from an elevation of 487 to 529 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1929-C89
EMPR ASS RPT 1194, 1242, 9295
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
EMR MP CORPFILE (Nadina Explorations Ltd.; Northlodge Copper Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, p. 65
GSC OF 864
EMPR PFD 521136

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