Silverknife
Silverknife Claims
The Silverknife Property lies one kilometer by road, immediately west of Coeur Mining’s Silvertip mine leases. Silverknife comprises of 2 mineral tenures covering approximately 538.3 hectares. The Silverknife prospect represents a zone of known silver-lead-zinc mineralization distal to, and stratigraphically lower than the Silvertip Deposit and more proximate to the Cassiar Batholith (heat source). This presents opportunities for the discovery of mineralization associated with chimney-type feeders and mantos that may be related to the SilverTip mineralizing event.
Approximately 30 holes (2,334.7 meters) of drilling was completed on the Discovery Zone that transects both the Silverknife tenures and the Silvertip leases. Drilling to date has identified that galena and sphalerite replacement of carbonates with variable thicknesses has occurred. The presence of a thick mineralized limestone unit (up to 150 meters in thickness) with an overlying graphitic caprock is thought to mimic the dolomite-shale cap of the Silvertip deposit. Historical reports note that there is also potential to expand this zone along structures parallel to the Silver Creek Fault. Lead isotope studies have confirmed the genetic connection of this mineralization to the Silvertip deposit located approximately 700 meters east of the claims.
Other opportunities for potential mineralization within the southwestern portion of Silverknife tenures are yet to be investigated. In this area of the property, the McDame dolomite is overlain by the Sylvester Formation. This contact is where the mineralization is located at Silvertip and provides a possible large area over which manto-type mineralization might be discovered.
In addition, 30.25 line kilometers of induced polarization surveys and 1,115 soil samples at 25 meter intervals in the central portion of the property have served to identify six anomalous areas. Four of the anomalies are silver-lead-zinc targets. None of these targets are yet to be extensively investigated.
Silverknife therefore represents an excellent target for a carbonate replacement style deposit similar to the adjacent Silvertip Mine deposit.
- November 18, 2021
September 28, 2021
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