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File Created: 31-Dec-1986 by John Bradford (JB)
Last Edit:  04-Oct-2021 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name FEE GLACIER, TITAN, OCCURRENCE K, FEE, RUPERT, ICE 1, TAKU ARM Mining Division Atlin
BCGS Map 104M049
Status Showing NTS Map 104M08W
Latitude 059º 28' 02'' UTM 08 (NAD 83)
Longitude 134º 21' 13'' Northing 6592257
Easting 536632
Commodities Silver, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Nisling, Stikine, Cache Creek, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Fee Glacier showing is located on White Moose Mountain near the southern extent of Taku Arm on Tagish Lake, 40 kilometres west-southwest of Atlin and is accessible by helicopter.

The Fee Glacier showing consists of quartz veins, quartz sweats, and shear zones located on a nunatak within the Fee Glacier. The host rock is hornblende gneiss near the boundary of two gneissic assemblages: 1) a Middle Devonian assemblage related to the Yukon-Tanana terrane; 2) a Permian assemblage part of the Boundary Ranges Metamorphic Suite of the Stikinia terrane. Both assemblages have hornblende gneiss as a constituent rock type.

The veins are up to 25 centimetres wide and contain highly oxidized pyrite, pyrrhotite, and minor chalcopyrite and galena. Assays of three grab samples collected by Placer Dome in 1990 yielded an average of 6.86 grams per tonne silver and 0.02 per cent copper (Assessment Report 8384). Minor pyrite (less than 5 per cent) and unidentified fine-grained black sulphides were noted in a 0.3-metre-wide clay bearing shear zone containing approximately 25 per cent quartz clasts. A 0.3-metre-wide chip sample (343903) assayed less than 0.005 grams per tonne gold and 0.5 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 19827).

In 2006, Eagle Plains Resources Ltd. collected five rock samples from near the Fee Glacier showing; none of the values returned were as good as results achieved by historic sampling.

Areas to the immediate south of the Fee Glacier were selected for further study in 2011 by Blue Gold Mining Inc., due to geophysical anomalies apparent in the airborne magnetic and EM, 2007 and 2011 datasets. Strong ovoid anomalies visible in lower EM channels coincident with a well-developed south-southeast-trending set of magnetic troughs that spatially overlap the Fee mineral showing were the main rationale for the positioning of grid-scale mapping and soil geochemical surveys that were completed to the immediate southeast of the inaccessible Fee showing. Rock exposure at the north end of the grid provided a good cross-section of rock types that are prevalent throughout the property.

Numerous petrophysical samples were collected from these various rock types. The Fee Showing proper, just north of the 2011 grid area, is a gossanous bluff in the center of the Fee glacier that appears to be largely controlled by the contact between the amphibole gneiss and the quartzofeldspathic unit. The Fee grid area was assessed negatively in that it did "not appear to have significant mineral potential".

In 2017, DeCoors Mining Corp. conducted a single day field program with the intent of locating previously reported mineralized veins and conducting traverses to prospect for new vein systems (Assessment Report 37317). A total of 20 readings were taken in the field using a Niton portable XRF analyzer. The field day was successful in locating additional quartz veins which appear unrelated to the mineralized vein system at the Buchan Creek showing (104M 035). Several samples were also collected in the Rupert-North occurrence area (104M 036) and the Fee Glacier area (104M 037) (Figure 13, Assessment Report 37317).

Refer to the Titan prospect (104M 089) for related details of the Titan property, of which the Fee Glacier showing is part of.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *8384, 15208, *19827, 28627, 30365, *33152, 34573, *37317, 38252
EMPR BULL 105
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 175-179, 181-196, 197-203; 1990, pp. 139-144, 153-159
EMPR GEOS MAP 1997-1
EMPR OF *1990-4
EMPR PF (In 104M General File - Claim map of 104M, 1970; Claim map of 104M 08 and 09, 1970)
EMPR RGS 37; 1993
GSC MAP 19-1957; 94A; 711; 1418A; 1426
GSC MEM 37
GSC OF 427; 2225, p. 42; 2694
GSC P 77-01A; 69-01A, pp. 23-27; 78-01A, pp. 69-70; 90-01E, pp. 113-119; 91-01A, pp. 147-153; 92-01A
GSC SUM RPT 1906, pp. 26-32; 1911, pp. 27-58
Kenwood, S. (2010-12-24): 2010 Exploration Report for the Titan Property
Placer Dome File

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