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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Oct-2021 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 104M15 Au1
Name BALD PEAK, GAUG-SOUTH, PAVEY 3, PAVEY, BENNETT, GOLDEN EAGLE Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104M096
Status Showing NTS Map 104M15W
Latitude 059º 55' 34'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 134º 54' 00'' Northing 6643187
Easting 505590
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Antimony Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Nisling, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Bald Peak showing is located north of Bennett, about 1 kilometre east of Bennett Lake and 70 kilometres west-northwest of Atlin.

The occurrence is underlain by Late Triassic rocks of the Stikine Plutonic Suite. At the showing, an adit is driven into a chilled, granitic body. Three opencuts are reported to expose a quartz vein 3 to 3.7 metres wide. A sample assayed "$5.25" gold(?), 267.38 grams per tonne silver, 7.8 per cent lead and 0.67 per cent antimony (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1900, page 762).

A fractured and silicified zone in granodiorite, less than 1 metre in width, locally contains up to 20 per cent arsenopyrite and 10 per cent pyrite. The zone trends 109 degrees and dips vertically. A sample of a well mineralized piece from the fractured zone assayed 1.43 grams per tonne gold and 3.8 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 12554).

The four claim Bald Peak group was located on the showings in about 1900. Work at this time consisted of open cutting and sampling. The Silver Queen and Ruby Silver claims, located east of Pavey and at an elevation of 1100 metres, may have been a relocation of the Bald Peak group. These claims were owned by Fred Stoney & Associates in 1913. The Silver Queen and Ruby Mines Company began development work on the property in 1915. An aerial tramway 1700 metres long was built from the railroad to a crosscut tunnel (over 150m) in 1916. The Alaska Juneau Gold Mining Company carried out exploration work on the Silver Queen group, owned by J.D. McDougal & Associates, and on the Silver Horde group, owned by Messrs. Wilms and Bacon, in the early 1930's.

Refer to the Silver Queen (104M 002) and Skarn prospect (104M 085) for a detailed history of the Pavey property of which the Bald Peak occurrence was part of.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1900-762
EMPR BULL 105
EMPR EXPL *1983-549
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 217-231; 1990, pp. 139-144, 153-159
EMPR GEOS MAP 1997-1
EMPR OF 1988-5
EMPR PF (In 104M General File - Claim map of 104M, 1970 and Mihalynuk, M.G., et al (1988): A Closer Look at the Llewellyn Fault-Tectonic Implications and Economic Mineral Potential; In Abstracts: Smithers Exploration Group Workshop, October 1988; Lodestar Explorations Inc. Prospectus, July 1990)
EMPR RGS 37, 1993
GSC MAP 19-1957; 94A; 711; 1418A; 1426
GSC MEM 37
GSC OF 427; 2225, p. 42
GSC P 69-01A, pp. 23-27; 78-01A, pp. 69-70; 91-01A, pp. 147-153; 92-01A
GSC SUM RPT 1906, pp. 26-32; 1911, pp. 27-58
Aurora Geosciences Ltd. (2012-07-09): Technical Report – Golden Eagle Property

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