Mohawk Group Silver, Gold, Moly + Polymetallic Property

202.72 hectares / 500.94 acres. The Mohawk group straddles the summit of Four Mile Mountain, 8 kilometres east of Hazelton, British Columbia. Six Mile Road provides convenient access through the southern portion of the property, a 4 km. drive from the Settlement of Two Mile, just north of Hazelton. The property is affected by a robust intensity of mineralized workings and exposures, as follows:

Mohawk, Past Producer (Minfile 093M_051): Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Antimony: The property has been developed by an adit at the 610 metre level and a small tonnage of ore was hand sorted and shipped between 1913 and 1929. The property has also been explored by numerous trenches and two short shafts. The property was first staked in 1911 and was shut down in 1929. Three veins exposed in the main workings strike approximately 065 degrees, dipping between 30 and 65 degrees southeast. A fourth vein, located 250 metres northwest of the main vein exposure, also strikes approximately 065 degrees, dipping 60 degrees southeast. The veins range from 10 to 120 centimetres in width and are up to 135 metres in length. One rich sample assayed 11,387.82 grams per tonne silver, 23.31 grams per tonne gold, 14.1 per cent lead, 8.8 per cent zinc, 8 per cent copper and 4.8 per cent antimony (Property File - Hagen, E.A., 1928)

Babine, showing (Minfile 093M_050): Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper: The property has been prospected by two adits, approximately 150 metres apart, and several trenches. The main occurrence is a 38-centimetre wide vein which strikes 050 degrees and dips 65 degrees southwest. The vein carries banded sphalerite, galena and minor chalcopyrite in a gangue of quartz. A 38-centimetre wide channel sample assayed trace gold, 77.8 grams per tonne silver, 2.65 per cent lead and nil zinc (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 223). The second occurrence, located 150 metres to the east, contains pyrrhotite and base metal sulphides in a quartz gangue.

Iron Mask, showing (Minfile 093M_152): Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper: The Iron Mask showing is located on the south side of Four Mile Mountain, 8 kilometres east of Hazelton. It lies between the Comet (093M 052) and the Mohawk (093M 051) Crown granted claims. The main showing area consists of two semi-parallel fissure- veins which strike 015 degrees, dipping 42 degrees east. A grab sample from a 5 to 8 centimetre wide vein assayed 336.7 grams per tonne silver, 0.94 per cent lead and 5.4 per cent zinc. A second showing area is located 200 metres to the east.

Comet, showing (Minfile 093M_052): Silver, Lead, Zinc, Antimony: The property has been explored by a 45-metre long adit at the 370 metre level, as well as two shorter adits and several small trenches. The veins strike between 345 degrees and 080 degrees, dip 15 to 60 degrees east or southeast and range up to 25 centimetres in thickness. One 25-centimetre sample assayed 0.3 gram per tonne gold, 297.6 grams per tonne silver, 1.22 per cent lead, 2.29 per cent zinc and 0.47 per cent antimony.

Pink Cadillac, showing (Minfile 093M_096): Silver, Gold, Antimony: A quartz vein, carrying the rare silver antimony sulphide mineral miargyrite, yielded a grab sample which assayed 30 000 grams per tonne silver, 3.1 per cent antimony and 2.5 grams per tonne gold.

Dodko, showing (Minfile 093M_094): Molybdenum, Copper, Zinc, Antimony: A grab sample from a 2-metre wide mineralized area assayed 1.17 per cent molybdenite. A 15-metre wide chip sample from the adit assayed 0.04 per cent molybdenite.

Six Mile Creek, showing (Minfile 093M_179): Copper: An unnamed copper occurrence (#221) is located near Six Mile Creek, 9 kilometres east of Hazelton (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 2322). The area is underlain by clastic sedimentary rocks of the Middle Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Bowser Lake Group and the Lower Cretaceous Kitsuns Creek Formation, Skeena Group. The units are in fault contact and consist of sandstone, conglomerate, siltstone shale, coal and carbonaceous sediments.

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Combined Minfile Bibliography

EMPR Annual Reports 1909 (p.84), 1910 (p.87), 1911 (p.101,102), 1914 (p.200), 1916 (p.119), 1920 (p.86,87)  1925 (p.133) 1927 (p.132), 1928 (p.156,158), 1929 (p.158,159), 1930 (p.363), 1950 (p.83,98,99), 1956 (p.26)

EMPR ARIS Assessment Reports *7955, *8198, *8672, 11900

EMPR Bulletin 10, 1943, p. 71

EMPR Map 69-1 (#261, 262, 263)

EMR MP CORPFILE (Mohawk Mining Company Ltd.)

EMR MRD COMM FILE P 171, 173

EMPR Property File (Sketch of claims, date and source unknown)

EMPR Property File (Vertical Plan of Mohawk Mine, 1928; Claim Map of Mohawk  Mine, 1928; Hagen, E.A. (1928): Report on the Mohawk Mine; Plan of  Main Workings, 1929; Report by Resident Engineer, 1937)

GSC MAP 971A, 44-24, 1731

GSC Memoir *223-35,39  110-35

GSC Open File *2322 (#214, 219, 221)

GSC Summary Report 1909-66, 1912-103