Blue Jacket
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Privately Held Rich-Vein Property with Historic Promise
• The single sample of vein and wall rock collected was comprised of oxide-copper (malachite) which assayed 5.04% copper, 171 ppm silver with anomalous gold, lead and zinc. Of note, the sample also ran anomalous molybdenum (321 ppm) suggesting the vein is porphyry copper related.
• Assay results on the one grab sample ran 6.80% copper with 17 gm/ton silver and anomalous gold and zinc.
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Location
The Blue Jacket Mine is in a somewhat remote location six miles west of Lucile, Idaho (Idaho County, Payette National Forest, and within the watershed, 2.5 airline miles east of the Snake River. located near Lucille, Idaho in the Crooks Corral Mining District, and part of the Nez Perce Forest. The project consists of 79 unpatented claims which are staked adjacent to and around a group of patented claims comprising the historic Blue Jacket Mine. This historic mine is held privately and is not part of the Company land package.
Geology and Mineralization
The Bluejacket Mine vein mineralization is likely related to a sizeable porphyry copper intrusion mostly concealed beneath a cover of Seven Devil's volcanic and volcaniclastic rocks. The tunnel appears to have intersected a copper-mineralized porphyry intrusion. The older first shaft has been capped and completely covered over. The later principal mine shaft has been capped and is fenced off. Dumps to the shafts remain, as well as a relict part of an ore stockpile. The ore stockpile material consists of mostly colorful oxide-copper minerals (malachite, atacamite, azurite); covellite, and tenorite were also noted. Chalcocite is abundant with minor relict chalcopyrite. The copper mineralization occurs hosted by pyritiferous vuggy silica. Accessory barite is also present. The larger dump to the principal shaft is comprised of highly pyritiferous vuggy silica without much, if any, copper mineralization.
Exploration History
Several reports give detailed accounts of exploration and development work carried out in the late1800's to early 1900's. Underground work consists of two inclined shafts and a 865-foot tunnel driven from the drainage level (Kirkwood Creek) to beneath the shaft collars. Cross cuts were driven at five levels off the main shaft and off the tunnel level. The cross cut and drift workings probably total +/-1,500 feet. No further mining development work has been carried out on the property since around 1918. The mine workings today are not accessible.
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