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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 103P12 Ag17
Name DOLLAR BILL Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P053
Status Showing NTS Map 103P12E
Latitude 055º 34' 29'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 33' 24'' Northing 6158890
Easting 464902
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Dollar Bill showing is located west of the Kitsault River on the northeast slope of Tsimstol Mountain, 11.0 kilometres north-northwest of Alice Arm. The area was explored in 1968.

The area is underlain by a sequence of volcanics and sediments of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group and the Lower 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 showing consists of a 0.9 metre wide quartz vein developed along a shear zone in interbedded black siltstones and brown pebble conglomerate of the Stuhini Group. The vein strikes northwest for at least 100 metres and dips 45 degrees southwest. The vein is largely barren except near its south end where it is cut by a narrow northeast striking biotite lamprophyre dike. Here, the vein contains near-massive lenses of fine-grained pyrite and arsenopyrite with minor galena and sphalerite. A 0.9 metre chip sample across the vein assayed trace gold, 13.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.05 per cent copper, 0.37 per cent lead and 0.15 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1968, page 60).

Historic work consisted of opencuts along the vein.

In 2005, Kitsault Resources Ltd. completed a reconnaissance stream sediment survey on the area as the Kitsault Gold property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1968-59,60
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; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 3453
Lahti, H. (2006-12-20): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Kitsault Gold Property

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