Extract from MINFILE Occurrences: 093L 025:
Name DEL SANTO, DEEP CREEK, DEL, BURN, DEL/SANTO
Development status: Prospect
The Del Santo prospect is located near the headwaters of Deep Creek and the main showing is comprised of a north-trending band of massive pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite, and minor sphalerite which occupies a fold closure. The host rock is an east dipping chlorite-epidote altered amygdaloidal andesitic basalt of the Lower Jurassic Hazelton Group, Nilkitkwa Formation. Overlying the massive sulphide mineralization and to the east of the property are thinly bedded shaly siltstones and argillaceous limestones of the Middle Jurassic Hazelton Group, Smithers Formation. A biotite granodiorite intrusion is exposed to the southeast of the showing and has been dated at 47.1 +/- 1.6 million years.
Samples taken from the main mineralized zone in 1986, assayed 0.02 grams per tonne gold, 562 grams per tonne silver, 1.16 per cent copper, 0.026 per cent lead, and 0.31 per cent zinc (Fieldwork 1986, page 217).
Telkwa Gold Corporation drilled in 1998 and conducted fieldwork in 1999.
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