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File Created: 15-Jan-1992 by William (Bill) Coombe (WC)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104A4 Au4
Name S.D. Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A001
Status Showing NTS Map 103P13W, 104A04W
Latitude 056º 00' 51'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 51' 24'' Northing 6207987
Easting 446592
Commodities Gold, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The exact location of the S.D. showing is not known. It is assumed be on the S.D. claims (Lots 4560-4563), on the south side of Bitter Creek, about 5.5 kilometres east-southeast of the confluence of Bitter Creek with the Bear River.

The area is underlain by the Tertiary(?) Bitter Creek quartz monzonite pluton that intrudes gently dipping sediments of the Middle Jurassic Salmon River Formation (Hazelton Group). Because of the uncertainty of the exact location of the showing, the nature of the hostrocks are unknown. Several mineralized quartz veins are reported to be on the S.D. claims (Property File - Little, 1935).

The main (No. 1) vein trends approximately northwest, parallel to Cable Creek, and dips southwest. It consists of quartz mineralized with chalcopyrite(?). In 1935, a chip(?) sample was collected about 60 metres south of the south end of the No. 1 vein. The sample assayed 21.3 grams per tonne gold, 2.0 per cent copper and 137.1 grams per tonne silver across 1.2 metres (Property File - Little, 1935). Three other small veins, carrying lead and zinc values, are approximately parallel to the No. 1 vein (Property File - Little, 1935).

The S.D. claims, owned by Erickson, were first reported in 1925. That year they were acquired by Stewart Central Mines Limited which had been incorporated the previous year. Two veins were reported on the property at that time. No work other than opencutting was reported. The claims were Crown granted to the company in 1929. The company name was changed to Victor Gold Mines Limited in 1934. The following year a crosscut tunnel was reported, but the location is not given. At least four veins were reported that year. In 1973, the property was owned by Stewart Development Ltd. That year Totem Uranium Ltd. assigned a 90 per cent interest in an option on the property to Whipsaw Mines Ltd. No further work has been reported.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1925-92; 1928-102,519; 1929-505
EMPR ASS RPT 20379, *24713, 27681
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
EMPR PF (In 104A 079 - *Little, M. (1935): A Report for Victor Gold Mines, Limited)
EMR MP CORPFILE (Whipsaw Mines Ltd.)
GSC MAP 28A; 216A; 217A; 307A; 315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC OF 2582; 2779

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