MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 104K 131

File Created:	22-Feb-2006	by	Garry J. Payie (GJP)
Last Edit:	04-Apr-2022	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	BALVENIE, THORN, TOOHEYS CREEK	Mining Division	Atlin
		BCGS Map	104K056
Status	Showing	NTS Map	104K10W
Latitude	058º 33' 17''	UTM	08 (NAD 83)
Longitude	132º 48' 51''	Northing	6492542
		Easting	627185
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Copper	Deposit Types	H04 : Epithermal Au-Ag-Cu: high sulphidation
Tectonic Belt	Insular	Terrane	Stikine

Capsule Geology

The area lies within a stock (Thorn stock) of feldspar porphyry related to the Late Cretaceous Windy Table Complex.

The Balvenie zone outcrops as a set of silicified spires with associated intense alteration and pyrite-tetrahedrite-enargite mineralization. Alteration minerals include natroalunite, dickite, pyrophyllite and diaspore.

In 2005, grab samples (3788834) yielded values of up to 1.19 grams per tonne gold, 23.5 grams per tonne silver and 0.227 per cent copper, while a float sample (379103) assayed 1.99 grams per tonne gold and 307 grams per tonne silver (Baker, D. (2010-10-28): 2010 Technical Report on the Thorn Property).

The zone was detected by an IP survey 500 metres to the west-northwest where it was tested by diamond-drill hole THN05-40. The hole intersected disseminations and veinlets of pyrite, enargite, tetrahedrite, and minor chalcopyrite and pyrargyrite. The best mineralized section assayed 0.23 grams per tonne gold, 170.0 grams per tonne silver, and 8.64 per cent copper over 1.0 metre (Press Release, Cangold Limited, August 24, 2005).

Another zone of mineralization, referred to as the Tooheys Creek zone, is located to the southwest of the Balvenie zone. The zone comprises a 1 metre wide calcite-quartz vein with 3 to 5 per cent pyrite. The vein strikes 090 degrees and dips vertically. Float samples from the area contain quartz-carbonate veining and stockworks with disseminated arsenopyrite, pyrite and sphalerite.

In 2005, a grab sample (378730) from the vein assayed 2.37 grams per tonne gold and 10.7 grams per tonne silver, while a float sample (276451), collected in 2004, assayed 12.80 grams per tonne gold, 2.14 per cent copper, 1.90 per cent lead and 6.57 per cent zinc (Baker, D. (2010-10-28): 2010 Technical Report on the Thorn Property).

Work History

In 2004, Cangold Limited and Rimfire Minerals discovered the new Balvenie zone and drilled one hole in 2005. See Thorn (104K 031) for further details of the larger Thorn property.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1963-6; 1964-11; 1965-17

EMPR ASS RPT 2512, 10243, 11923, 15897, 21968, 23612, 25725, 26390, 26433, 27120, 27379, *27673, 28151, 31990, 32769, 33597, 34506, 35192, 36638, 36829, 38219, 38990, 39429

EMPR EXPL 1981-242; 1983-546; 1999-19-31; 2000-1-8; 2003-6; 2004-26; 2005-28

MER 2003-16; 2004-13; 2005-7

EMPR OF 1998-8-E, pp. 1-25

EMPR PF (Offering of Rights. Consolidated Inland Recovery Group Ltd.; Rimfire Minerals Corporation Website (Feb.2000))

GSC MAP 6-1960; 1262A

GSC MEM 362, p. 56

GCNL #183, 1968; #57,#139, 1986; #128(Jul.5), #196(Oct.13), 2000

N MINER Aug.12, Dec.2, 2002; Oct.28, Sept.8,25, 2003

PR REL Cangold Limited (First Strategies Au Corp.), Jan.17 2002; Oct.10, 2002; Apr.3, May15, Jun.5; Jun.29, Sept.24, 2003; Rimfire Minerals Corp., Mar.26, Jul.15, Dec.5, 2002; Jun.9, Nov.12,24, Dec.18, 2003; Jun.29, 2005; Rimfire Minerals Corp. and Cangold Limited Oct.10, 2002; Jun.24, Aug.27, Sept.25, Oct.27; Jun.4, Aug.4, Sept.27, Nov.18, 2004; Jan.7, Jun.6, Jul.26, Aug.8, 2005

WWW http://www.rimfire.bc.ca; http://www.infomine.com/; http://www.cangold.ca

*Baker, D. (2010-10-28): 2010 Technical Report on the Thorn Property

Burrell, H., Deiss, A.M. (2021-06-23): Thorn Property NI 43-101 Technical Report Sutlahine River Area, British Columbia, Atlin Mining Division

EMPR PFD 842238, 842239, 842240, 842242, 842528, 842549, 842573