MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 103P 187

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	04-Aug-2020	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	103P12 Ag13
Name	SILVER TIP, SILVER TIP NO. 1 (L. 3823), SILVER TIP NO. 2 (L. 3824)	Mining Division	Skeena
		BCGS Map	103P063
Status	Showing	NTS Map	103P12E
Latitude	055º 40' 58''	UTM	09 (NAD 83)
Longitude	129º 31' 27''	Northing	6170899
		Easting	467042
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Zinc	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Stikine

Capsule Geology

The Silver Tip showing is located 1.25 kilometres west of the Kitsault River, 22.5 kilometres north of Alice Arm. The area was explored for silver in 1916.

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.

Several opencuts expose quartz-barite stringers hosted in andesite of the Hazelton Group. The stringers contain sparse disseminations of galena and sphalerite. Assays of grab samples are reported to average between 34 and 68 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1916, page 78).

During 2010 through 2019, Dolly Silver Corporation explored the area as apart of the Dolly Varden property. A complete property exploration history can be found at the Dolly Varden (MINFILE 103P 188) occurrence.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1916-K78; 1920-349

EMPR BULL 63

EMPR ASS RPT 21562

EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 219-224,327-330; 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; 2996; 3453

Garrow, T. (2011-09-05): Technical Report - Geology and Mineral Exploration of the Dolly Varden Property

Higgs, A.A. (2015-03-18): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property

Higgs, A.A. (2015-05-01): Amended 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property

Higgs, A.A. (2015-09-30): 2015 Technical Report for the Dolly Varden Property

Turner, A.J. (2019-05-08): Technical Report and Mineral Resource Update for the Dolly Varden Property