Silver-Lead-Zinc Mineral Property For Sale
Big Canon
Project Details
Commodity: Lead, Silver, Zinc
Location: Canada
Terms: Lease Purchase Option
Price: Contact Vendor
Summary:
1899; original discovery
1918; two short adits driven
1966-67; adits rehabilitated, 2775 meters of drilling (Interprovincial Matels
Ltd.)
1988-89; airborne mag and vlf-em, mapping, geochem and trenching (Homestake
Mining Ltd.)
2007; trenching, geochem, 600 meters drilling (Saturn Minerals Ltd.)
Location and Access:
Located 20 km. Northeast of the town of Atlin, British Columbia. Accessible by Gravel Tote road.
Description:
Possible small scale production in light of current silver prices with promising exploration potential.
Geology:
Fourth of July batholith, a multiphase granite to hornblende diorite intrusive; extensively cut by younger (cretaceous to tertiary) dykes ranging from aplite/granite to diabase/gabbro. Mineralization contained in a series of vein/shear/dyke systems cutting medium to coarse grained granodiorite with varying amounts of sphalerite, galena, arsenopyrite, pyrite, pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, tetrahedrite, molybdenite,scheelite and cassiterite in a quartz calcite gangue.
History:
Proven ore reserves based on 1966 drilling are 8400 tonnes grading 792 gm/t ag, 4.9% pb, and 3.1% zn, with another 11,000 tonnes indicated at similar grade.
Additional Information:
Contact: Brian Scott
Telephone: 867-399-3214
Email: bscottag@msn.com
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