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865 hectares. The property is classified as Past Producer. Described in Minfile 104B_030. The Outland Silver Bar occurrence lies on the west side of the Salmon Glacier, north of Mount Bayard. Silver mineralization at Outland was originally discovered and staked by prospector E. H. Bertholf in 1919, and in 1920 Outland Silver Bar Mines was formed to initiate property development work. Other showings to the north-west were staked by T. V. Wilson in 1920, and subsequently acquired by Eldorado Gold Mining. Exploration and limited underground development of short headings (Figure 3) on the main areas of interest continued until 1930. -In 1961, consultants to Newmont Mining Corporation conducted a geological mapping program at surface and underground. -In 1977, Petra Gem Exploration of Canada Ltd. conducted a mapping and sampling program on the property. -In 1979 and 1981, Toumigan Mining Exploration Ltd. conducted mapping, trenching and sampling programs on the property. -In 1981, Outland Resources Corporation conducted a mapping, sampling and diamond drilling program on the property. -In 2006 and 2007, Bell Resources Corporation performed detailed prospecting in the north-east portion of their claim block. Host rocks are banded, dark, quartzitic siltstones and greywackes, which are bounded by andesitic tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Unuk River Formation (Hazelton Group). The area lies within the northwest extremity of the Eocene Portland Canal dyke swarm, which consists of diorite to granodiorite dykes. Hornblende granodiorite of the Texas Creek Batholith lies to the west and south. The sedimentary rocks are marked by breccia and narrow mylonite zones and by complex, small scale, isoclinal folding. Quartz veins and mineralization cut altered porphyritic hornblende diorite and quartz diorite dykes and are subsequently cut by dark green andesitic dykes. Several mineralized quartz veins and gossans occur on the property. The main vein or "Johnnies" vein, which trends north- northeast, dips 70 degrees east, and has been explored by two adits. The vein has a width of 1.3 metres, a mineralized length of 30 metres and occurs in brecciated altered siltstones. It has been cut by small dioritic dykes. Other smaller veins are found in the older dykes but generally show little extension into the siltstones. The veins consist of quartz with scattered galena, sphalerite, tetra- hedrite and pyrite with minor chalcopyrite. These veins trend north to northeast and dip east. A 2.0 metre channel sample from the Johnnies vein assayed 166 grams per tonne silver, 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 2.17 per cent copper, and 2.28 per cent lead (Assessment Report 8909). About 100 metres to the southeast, an east-northeast trending vein cuts silicified argillite. It is less than 50 centimetres wide and a 0.3 metre sample of vein material assayed 936 grams per tonne silver, 1.4 grams per tonne gold, 0.53 per cent copper, 7.02 per cent lead, and 7.68 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 375).Lenses of sulphide mineralization, that have been referred to as being replacement-type, occur in pyrite-rich siltstones and mudstones, 500 metres east-northeast of Johnnies vein. These mineralized zones, which trend east-northeast and dip steeply north, contain pyrite, pyrrhotite, arsenopyrite, and scattered chalcopyrite, galena, tetrahedrite, argentite, sphalerite and an unidentified tungsten mineral. A 10 metre sample from and adit assayed 95.3 grams per tonne silver, 0.3 grams per tonne gold, 0.23 per cent lead, and 0.19 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 8909). Twenty-nine samples were assayed for tungsten oxide (WO3) and they contained between 0.01 to 0.06 per cent tungsten oxide (Assessment Report 8909). From 1926 to 1929, 4 tonnes of ore produced 3328 grams of silver, 13 kilograms of copper, and 507 kilograms of lead. Significant exploration work has been applied to the Dilworth property 1600 metres east. Minfile reports on the Dilworth include 104B 038, 104B 039 and 104B 142. ARIS reports on the Dilworth include 06009, 08477, 08788, 14851, 21132, 21133, 21405, 21993, 22893, 24905, 27927, 28261, 28262, 29918 and 31000. Available for option/JV/Sale. Click here for more. |
