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File Created: 14-Jul-1988 by Laura L. Coughlan (LLC)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 104B10 Zn1
Name SUPERIOR (INEL), INEL 3, ICE CAVE Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B066
Status Showing NTS Map 104B10W
Latitude 056º 36' 19'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 58' 08'' Northing 6275183
Easting 379140
Commodities Zinc, Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I02 : Intrusion-related Au pyrrhotite veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The High Stake zone of the Inel property occurs in an area that is primarily underlain by marine sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Stuhini Group. Lower Jurassic andesitic volcanics of the Hazeleton Group overlie the Stuhini rocks and Early Jurassic feldspar porphyritic rock and monzodioritic to gabbroic rock intrude the strata.

The rocks are cut by a long, narrow, high angle alaskite (quartz-feldspar porphyry) pluton which extends from the south boundary of the Inel claims,

Prospecting in 1983 and 1984 led to trenching above Bronson Glacier southwest of the main mineralized areas. The Superior zone was discovered and consisted of pyrrhotite and sphalerite in sub-parallel quartz-sulphide veins. The trenched material graded as high as 0.15 per cent copper, 1.79 per cent lead, 12.99 per cent zinc, 67.54 grams per tonne silver and 0.41 gram per tonne gold (Property File (Grove, 1987)). The host rocks consist of thin-bedded volcanic sandstone and siltstone that are part of a sedimentary sequence intercalated within a thick andesite breccia. This andesitic breccia is the lower member in the Hazelton Group Unuk River Formation and is overlain by con- trasting light colored rhyolitic fragmental/flow sequence.

Talus covers most of the area above Bronson Glacier. Blocks up to 0.9 by 1.2 metres, of silver-bearing galena, sphalerite and pyrite, occur here. The source of this material has not been found.

Refer to Inel (104B 113) for details of property mineralization and a common work history.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3980, 4732, 5274, 8997, 11312, 18062, 21157, 22026, 26523
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR EXPL 1980-467; 1983-524
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 341-347
EMPR GEM 1972-518; 1973-501; 1974-335
EMPR GM 1997-03
EMPR OF 1989-10; 1990-16; 1994-1; 1992-1; 1992-3; 1998-10
EMPR PF (Refer to 104B 113 (INEL) for the following documents) Graf, C.W., (1982): Report on Claims in the Snippaker Creek area of British Columbia for Active Mineral Explorations, December 1982; Skyline Explorations Ltd., (1984): Information Circular on
Inel Project; Grove, E.W., (1987): *Exploration and Development Proposal for Inel Resources Ltd. on the Inel Property (March 6, 1987) in Prospectus for Inel Resources Ltd., July 10, 1987)
GSC MAP 9-1957; 311A; 1418A
GSC MEM 246
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 145-154
GCNL #245, 1988
Anderson, R.G., (1988): A Paleozoic and Mesozoic Stratigraphic and Plutonic Framework for the Iskut Map area (104B), Northwestern British Columbia, pp. A1-A5, in Geology and Metallogeny of Northwestern British Columbia, Smithers Exploration Group, G.A.C. Cordilleran Section Workshop, October 16-19, 1988
Grove, E.W. (1973): Detailed Geological Studies in the Stewart Complex, Northwestern British Columbia, Ph.D. Thesis, McGill University; (1983): Report on the Inel Property in Skyline Exporations Ltd., Statement of Material Facts, March 1, 1983
Burgoyne, A.A. (2012-05-07): Technical Report on The Iskut Property with Special Reference to Johnny Flats & Burnie Trend Targets
EMPR PFD 19445

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