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File Created: 20-Feb-1986 by B. Neil Church (BNC)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name STRATHMORE (L.1018), SAN BERNARD Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E017
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 06' 15'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 40' 04'' Northing 5440375
Easting 378272
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Strathmore claim (Lot 1018) is centred 1.7 kilometres northeast of the Greenwood post office and 0.5 kilometre east of Highway 3 at 910 metres (3000 feet) elevation. Access is directly from Greenwood municipality.

Production from this property between 1898 and 1925 amounted to 198 tonnes of ore containing gold, 4.8 kilograms; silver, 533 kilograms; and lead, 4.1 tonnes. The property was mined about 1900 and some ore shipped. The claim was Crown Granted in 1906.

The old workings consist of a tunnel, shaft, several drifts on the vein, and crosscuts. Development work consisted of 91 metres of drifting, a 12-metre shaft, and 14 metres of open cutting and trenching. The vein varies in size from 2.5 centimetres to 0.3 metre and is mineralized with galena, pyrite, zinc, gold, and silver in a gangue of quartz. The country rock is granite and diorite of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Greenwood Stock.

A few metres to the north of the old workings the vein has been faulted in an easterly direction, throwing it up hill. The ore lying to the north of the fault was discovered in 1924 and subsequently mined. After the upper part of the vein was stoped out, a crosscut was driven below to develop the vein at a greater depth. Considerable difficulty was experienced owing to the lead being pinched to such an extent that it was unrecognizable from several other mineralized fissures. After crosscutting for about 18 metres, the miners decided to follow the first vein cut. At about 30 metres from the crosscut the fracture opened into an ore shoot grading 7 to 57 grams per tonne gold, 4 to 5.5 kilograms per tonne silver and 1.95 to 7.15 per cent lead.

In the period 1909 to 1913, a long tunnel (915 metres) known as the 'Greenwood - Phoenix Tramway Bore' was driven eastward under the Strathmore claim from the Nelson claim. A vein was cut 518 metres from the portal which was undoubtedly the Strathmore vein, although it was further into the hill than expected. There is no indication of any ore reserves.

During 2008 through 2012, Grizzly Discoveries Inc. completed programs of soil, stream sediment and rock sampling, geological mapping and ground geophysical surveys on the area as the Overlander area of the Greenwood property

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1894-map after 758; 1896-577; 1897-581,582,588;
1898-1124; 1902-181; 1903-167; 1904-213; 1905-181,183,256;
1907-109,215; 1913-141; 1914-334; 1915-446; *1924-167;
1925-197,445
EMPR BC METAL MM00934
EMPR INDEX 3-215
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25
EMPR P *1986-2, p. 54
EMPR PRELIM MAP 59
GSC MAP 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 1969
GSC P 45-20; 67-42; 79-29
Dufresne, M. (2013-11-10): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project
Dufresne, M. (2013-11-25): Technical Report for the Greenwood Gold Project
EMPR PFD 800042

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