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File Created: 05-Sep-2017 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:  24-Mar-2022 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name FLOW DOME, BRUCEJACK, PRETIUM Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104B050
Status Prospect NTS Map 104B08E
Latitude 056º 27' 27'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 130º 10' 23'' Northing 6257603
Easting 427701
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types H05 : Epithermal Au-Ag: low sulphidation
H08 : Alkalic intrusion-associated Au
L02 : Porphyry-related Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Stikine
Capsule Geology

The Flow Dome area is underlain by Betty Creek formation rocks of the Lower to Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group. The surface geology of the Flow Dome zone is comprised of flow-foliated fine hornblende and feldspar phyric latite and fragmental rocks and well-bedded green, maroon, and grey andesitic to dacitic pyroclastic and epiclastic rocks. The Betty Creek Formation rocks are cut by east and northwest trending dikes of intermediate to mafic composition.

In the Flow Dome zone, high-grade intersections along a broader corridor of mineralization were encountered in holes SU-666 and SU-668 up to 1000 metres east of the Valley of the Kings.

In 2015 six HQ holes were collared on surface in the Flow Dome Zone, with two NQ wedges collared from parent hole SU-671, for a total of 6,199 metres of drilling. Targets were derived from deep airborne magnetometre anomalies (2014 survey and magnetic susceptibility inversion modelling).

The Flow Dome zone extends 2 kilometres northeast and is approximately 400 metres wide. Intersections of quartz-sericite-pyrite altered porphyritic rock were encountered. Two holes, setup as down-dip tests (SU-666 and SU-668) returned gold values, including a quartz-calcite vein hosted electrum sample with 8600 grams per tonne gold and 4330 grams per tonne silver over 0.5 metre at 1,267.45 metres depth in SU-666 (Assessment Report 32614). Fine dendritic electrum was also visible in SU-668, hosted by a less than 1 centimetre pyrite-bearing quartz-calcite vein along a fault. A 28.50 metre interval in SU-668 (from 1143 to 1171.5 metres depth) assayed 0.59 gram per tonne gold and 13.62 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 32614).

Refer to West (104B 193) for details of related mineralization and an up-to-date common work history relating to the Brucejack project of Pretium Resources.

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EMPR BULL 63
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