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File Created: 05-May-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  06-Jun-2023 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name LUCKY NORTH Mining Division Liard
BCGS Map 104P022
Status Showing NTS Map 104P05W
Latitude 059º 17' 41'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 46' 19'' Northing 6573118
Easting 456025
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain, Cassiar
Capsule Geology

The Lucky North occurrence is located in a northeast-facing valley and approximately 1.5 kilometres east-southeast of Mount McDame.

The area is underlain by the Upper Paleozoic Sylvester Allochthon, located on the northeastern margin of the Lower Cretaceous Cassiar Batholith. The Sylvester Allochthon is a fault bound imbricate assemblage of Mississippian to Upper Triassic Slide Mountain Complex regionally metamorphosed (greenschist) oceanic rocks thrust over the sediments of autochthonous North America. The assemblage contains basaltic to andesitic flows, pyroclastics, argillites, limestones, greywacke, chert, listwanite and quartz veins.

Locally, mafic volcanics with iron carbonate-alteration host quartz veinlets, 1 to 5 centimetre in width, with minor pyrite and associated gold values.

In 2019, a chip sample (667582) assayed 4.93 grams per tonne gold over 1.35 metres, whereas two nearby rock samples 19166 and 667334) yielded 13.0 and 1.15 grams per tonne gold, respectively (Assessment Report 38989).

Work History

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Elan (MINFILE 104P 075) and Boomerang (MINFILE 104P 112) occurrences and a complete exploration history can be found there.

In 2018, Cassiar Gold Corp. completed a program of rock and soil sampling on the area. In 2019, Margaux Resources completed a program of prospecting, geological mapping and rock sampling on the Cassiar Gold property. In 2020, Cassiar Gold Corp. completed a program of regional photogeological interpretation, prospecting and rock sampling on the Cassiar Gold property.

Bibliography
EMPR BULL 83
EMPR EXPL 1980-517; 1982-410; 1983-560; 1986-C467
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 55-62; *1981, pp. 156-161; 1987, pp. 245-248; 1988, pp. 323-337
EMPR MP MAP 1992-13
EMPR OF 1989-9; 1996-11
GSC MAP 381A; 1110A
GSC MEM 194; 319, p. 138
GSC OF 2779
Dussell, E. (1986): Listwanites and Their Relationship to Gold Mineralization at Erickson Mine, British Columbia, Canada, M.Sc. Thesis, Western Washington University
Harms, T.A. (1986): Structural and Tectonic Analysis of the Sylvester Allochthon, Northern British Columbia, Implications for Paleogeography and Accretion, Ph.D. Thesis, University of Arizona

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