Extract from MINFILE Occurrences: 104A 041, 104A 134, 104A 135:
Development status: Prospect
Name: DALHOUSIE (L. 4924), NO. 1, AZTEC
The Dalhousie (or No.1) showing is located in the southeastern part of the Dalhousie claim (L. 4924), on the east side of the Bear River Ridge, about 1600 metres east-southeast of Mount Shorty Stevenson and 750 metres west of the Bear River.
The general trend of the mineralization is north, dipping west and approximately conformable with the bedding. The mineralization has a width of 7 metres and extends over a length of 38 metres. Several opencuts, immediately east of tunnel No.1, expose veinlets and irregular pods of mineralization in tuffs. These consists of 5 to 40 per cent pyrite, 0.5 to 5 per cent chalcopyrite and 2 to 10 per cent magnetite in quartz-epidote-chlorite-amphibole rock. Chip samples in 1979 from cut No. 2, 8 metres north of the tunnel No. 1 portal, assayed up to 25.0 grams per tonne gold, 6.9 grams per tonne silver and 0.3 per cent copper across 3.0 metres (Assessment Report 7841). The mineralized zone was not intersected in the tunnel.
Tunnel No.2, 220 metres north of the No.1 showing, has been driven about 110 metres northwest. The tunnel exposes andesite flows and tuffs, containing minor disseminated pyrite, and intercalated rhyolite. A 30-metre long crosscut has been driven to the southwest, 100 metres from the portal. The crosscut exposes disseminated chalcopyrite in andesite over a length of 10 metres. The mineralization lies close to the eastern flank of a feldspar porphyry dike. A grab sample from the mineralization in 1979 assayed 1.7 grams per tonne gold, 10.3 grams per tonne silver and 0.33 per cent copper (Assessment Report 7841).
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