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File Created: 14-Feb-1992 by William (Bill) Coombe (WC)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 104A4 Cu13
Name GOLDBAR, RED, BITTER CREEK, EMPIRE Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 104A001
Status Showing NTS Map 104A04W
Latitude 056º 01' 48'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 54' 05'' Northing 6209785
Easting 443827
Commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Molybdenum, Bismuth Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Goldbar showing is located approximately 11 kilometres north-northeast of Stewart, on the west side of Bitter Creek about 700 metres south-southeast of the Bitter Creek bridge. The Goldbar NW (104A 156) showing occurs to the northwest and the historical Gold Bar No. 1 showings (104A 053) also occur in the area.

The area is underlain by the Tertiary(?) Bitter Creek quartz monzonite pluton, a satellite body of the Coast Plutonic Complex. The pluton intrudes Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation andesitic volcanics of the Hazelton Group (Bulletin 58; 63). The volcanics comprise crystal and lithic tuffs and cherty sediments that form large inclusions in the pluton (Assessment Report 20682). The volcanic and sedimentary rocks are intruded by augite diorite porphyry.

Several narrow (less than 10 centimetres wide) quartz veins contain variable amounts of pyrite, chalcopyrite, stibnite and molybdenite. One quartz vein, 30 centimetres wide, is well mineralized with stibnite, molybdenite and pyrite. A chip(?) sample collected in 1990 assayed 17.0 grams per tonne gold, 4.04 per cent bismuth, 21.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.16 per cent lead (Assessment Report 20682). A sampling program was conducted to follow this vein; the highest value was 1779.7 grams per tonne silver and 0.3428 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 21909). These reported assays are confusing as to which results belong with which sample/showing. Subsequent sampling (Assessment Report 21909) of this showing southeast, fails to duplicate the results reported in Assessment Report 20682, but the values are very similar to the results quoted for the Goldbar NW (104A 156) showing.

The history of the showing is unclear. The area was explored during 1910 and, again, in 1925 when the area to the west was covered by the Good Enough (including the Gold Bar claim) and America's (or Americus) Girl claim groups (104A 053). No further work was reported in the area until 1990 when Tenajon Resources Corp. carried out a limited rock, soil and silt sampling program on the Goldbar group owned by Javorsky. The showing was reported at that time. In 1994, a program of geochemical and geophysical surveying on the Empire group of claims for Prime Equities International was conducted. A total of 397 soil samples were collected and 3.5 kilometres of VLF-EM and 6.7 kilometres of magnetometer survey completed. In 1999, the Red 1-6 claims were staked by D.E. Molloy as part of a regional geochemical and geological evaluation and in 2000 an exploration program was carried out under the BC Prospectors Assistance Program. The exploration activities included compass and chain surveying of access roads, the installation of various flagged grid and control lines, and detailed and reconnaissance geological and geochemical surveys including the collection of 113 stream sediment, rock, soil and check samples.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1910-64; 1925-92; 1927-92
EMPR ASS RPT 20379, *20682, *21909, 23532, 26262, 26581
EMPR BULL 58; 63
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1987-22; 1994-14
GSC MAP *28A; 216A; 217A; 307A; *315A; 9-1957; 1418A
GSC MEM 32, p. 58; 175, pp. 105,119
GSC OF 2582; 2779
EMPR PFD 670948, 521118

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