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Mines - Mobile Claims
The Mobile located
claims numbers 1 to 10 are about 4 miles north-east of Stewart between elevations 3,000 feet to 5,000 feet along
Big
Gulch Creek, a southerly fork of Glacier Creek.
With reference to the Crown-grant claim, the claims are bounded
on the north by the Billy (Lot 2954) and Kootnay (Lot 1385).
The eastern
line of Mobile claims includes a narrow strip of the old Chicago group of
Crown-granted
claims located in 1911.
The Mobile claims are presently owned by G.
H. Kendrick and were grouped in 1965 and optioned to Anglo United Development Corporation Limited. Old
work on known mineralization included five short adits
and several trenches on the west side of Big Gulch Creek between elevations
3,700
feet and 3,900 feet.
This general area was included within the boundaries of the
Mobile No. 5 claim, where geochemical surveys have recently been performed.
Mineralization
consists of narrow, erratic, quartz-carbonate-sulphide lenses along
steep north-northeast-trending shear zones in deformed graphitic Bowser silt-stones.
Although reportedly 2,000 feet long, the main zone is not continuous and
the visible mineralization seldom has a width of more than a few inches.
Minerals identified in the veins include galena, sphalerite, pyrite, minor
argentite, tetrahedrite, proustite,
and rare native gold. Reported gold-silver and base metal values are erratic
and generally low.
Work performed on the property
in 1964 and 1966 for Anglo United Development Corporation Limited consisted mainly of
geochemical surveys intended to
outline mineralization other than that already developed.
The results of these surveys were
not encouraging and exploration was not continued.
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