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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 Ag6
Name SILVER HORDE, SILVER HORDE (L. 3804), SILVER HORDE NO. 2 (L. 3805), SILVER HORDE FR. (L. 3803), SILVER HORDE NO. 3 (L. 3802) Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P073
Status Showing NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 42' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 31' 07'' Northing 6174390
Easting 467417
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Silver Horde occurrence is situated 0.5 kilometre east of the Kitsault River, 26 kilometres north of the town of Alice Arm. This showing was extensively prospected for its silver-lead-zinc mineralization between 1916 and 1930.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group. The sequence is folded into the doubly plunging, north-northwest trending Kitsault River syncline and has been regionally metamorphosed to greenschist facies.

The Silver Horde occurrence is comprised of a silicified zone and a quartz breccia vein developed in andesitic tuffs of the Hazelton Group. The silicified zone strikes 020 degrees and is at least 1 metre wide. It is mineralized with spherules of marcasite and galena.

The quartz breccia vein, situated 160 metres northeast of the silicified zone, strikes 040 degrees and dips 65 to 70 degrees southeast. It varies from 0.6 to 3.0 metres wide and has been traced for 30 metres. A 30 metre long adit, 9 metres below the outcrop, intersected several faults indicating the vein is terminated at shallow depths by a fault. The vein is mineralized with pyrite, marcasite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite in a gangue of quartz and fragments of country rock. A 1.5 metre chip sample assayed trace gold, 209 grams per tonne silver and 0.9 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1951, page 97).

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 1916-79; 1918-61; 1922-60; 1924-55; 1926-84; *1930-96,97; *1951-96,97
EMPR ASS RPT 7098, 21562
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 (Kitsault Silver Mines Ltd.; Bush Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 307A; 315A; 1385A
GSC MEM 175, pp. 78,79
GSC OF 864; 2996; 3453
GSC SUM RPT *1928, pp. 43A,44A
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

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