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

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NMI 103P11 Ag1
Name SILVER KING, EAGLE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P063
Status Showing NTS Map 103P11W, 103P12E
Latitude 055º 38' 58'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 29' 51'' Northing 6167177
Easting 468692
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Silver King showing is located 1 kilometre east of the Kitsault River, 19 kilometres due north of Alice Arm. The area was investigated for precious metals in 1921.

The region is underlain by an assemblage of volcanics and sediments comprising the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group. These are folded into a doubly plunging north-northwest trending syncline and have been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The showing consists of quartz stringers and veins in a shear zone, up to 15 metres wide, that cuts Hazelton Group andesite. The zone generally strikes 013 degrees and dips 70 degrees east. The stringers and veins are up to 1.0 metre wide and parallel the shear zone. Mineralization consists of pyrite and minor galena and sphalerite. Grab samples of the veins are reported to assay from 461 to 576 grams per tonne silver equivalent (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1921, page 54).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1921-G54
EMPR ASS RPT 15371
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. 79
GSC OF 864

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