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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Jan-1996 by Jay W. Page (JWP)

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NMI
Name KELLY, LAST CHANCE Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E052
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082E12E
Latitude 049º 35' 01'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 43' 51'' Northing 5495919
Easting 302616
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The KELLY occurrence is located on the north side of Trout Creek, approximately 4 kilometres southwest of Summerland.

The area is underlain by highly fractured and altered granite of the Jurassic Okanagan Intrusions, which is unconformably overlain to the east by a succession of clastic sediments, ash flows, and alkaline lavas of the Eocene Penticton Group, Marama and White Lake formations. The Trout Creek and Summerland fault zones may be part of a major Tertiary detachment zone along which the Okanagan granitic and Summerland volcanic complexes have been decoupled, by extensional tectonics, from the Monashee foreland to the east.

Mineralization exposed at the KELLY occurrence includes galena, tetrahedrite, sphalerite and pyrite in a quartz-carbonate altered shear zone.

The property was first developed under the name "Last Chance" in 1906 when a 36.5-metre decline was driven along a silicified shear zone. Two "pay streaks" were identified, 4 centimetres and 5 centimetres wide respectively.

A high-grade grab sample assayed 3428 grams per tonne silver and 500 kilograms per tonne lead (Minister of Mines, Annual Report 1906, page 172). Limited production did took place during the period 1926 to 1927 when it became known as the KELLY mine. A total of 2 tonnes of ore were mined yielding 2769 grams of silver, 69 kilograms of lead and 63 kilograms of zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report, Index No. 3, page 202).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1906-172; 1926-200; 1927-476
EMPR ASS RPT *13218
EMPR BC METAL MM00354
EMPR FIELDWORK *1977 p. 11-15
EMPR INDEX *3-202
EMPR OF 1989-5; 1994-8
EMPR RGS 29
GSC MAP 538A; 539A; 15-1961; 1701A; 1712A; 1713A; 1714A; 1736A; 7686G; 8521G
GSC OF 409; 736; 1969
GSC P *37-21
EMPR PFD 825525

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