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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Feb-2008 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name JEWEL CREEK Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E017
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 08' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 38' 10'' Northing 5443567
Easting 380653
Commodities Copper, Silver Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The Jewel Creek property is underlain by Devonian to Permian rocks of the Knob Hill Group in contact with Cretaceous granodiorite of the Nelson Intrusions. The Knob Hill rocks are described as greenstone, greywacke, limestone and paragneiss.

Massive blebs and disseminations of chalcopyrite, pyrite, magnetite and pyrrhotite occur in a silicified, greenish skarn and massive blebs in a very siliceous, brown garnitiferous rock A 1.2 metre sample of this material assayed 0.82 per cent copper, 12.0 grams per tonne silver and 0.07 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 7297). The main mineralized zone is a garnet-rich over 30 metres in width of which disseminated to massive chalcopyrite occurs over 1 metre and malachite staining over 10-15 metres.

Historic workings are reported to consist of one short adit, a caved adit open cut and trenches. In 1978, Roanoke Explorations Ltd. collected 331 soil samples and conducted hand trenching and prospecting. In 1980 Roanoke, conducted a electromagnetic survey over a portion of its Jewel property.

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR ASS RPT 7297, 8086
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25
EMPR P 1986-2
EMPR PF (Roanoke Explorations (1978-06-15): Prospectus Report on the Jewel Creek Property)
EMPR PRELIM MAP 59
GSC MAP 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1969
GSC P 67-42; 79-29
EMPR PFD 1348, 1349

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