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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Dec-1999 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 082F10 Pb6
Name BELLE AIRE, HALGREN Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F066
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F10W
Latitude 049º 41' 48'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 55' 10'' Northing 5504909
Easting 505809
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

On the Belle Aire, a quartz vein in mica and garnet schists of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Milford Group strikes parallel to the foliation of the schists. The vein is 45 centitmetres wide at the portal but becomes narrow and lenticular in the adit. The hanging wall is a fault plane with slickensides parallel to the dip. Ore consists of galena and sphalerite occurring as small lenses. Four tonnes were mined in 1950 and 249 grams of silver, 327 kilograms of lead and 28 kilograms of zinc were recovered.

The early history of the development of this mineralized vein, outcropping just above the Coffee Creek bridge on the Nelson-Kaslo highway, is not clear. Apparently the Belle Aire claim is a relocation of an earlier Crown-granted claim, either the Blizzard or the Sunnyside. Exploration work on the Blizzard claim in 1917 consisted of a 10 foot tunnel, a shallow shaft and two open cuts. An adit visa to have been collared at creek level to explore the vein or depth.

In 1950, S. Hallgren staked the Belle Aire claim astride Coffee Creek, adjacent to the bridge. He worked the property intermittently until 1958. An old adit, which had been collared above the high-water mark on the north side of the creek, was extended to a length of 37 metres. Another adit, 9 metres vertically above, was driven for 6 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1917-153,187, 1950-136, 1957-49, 1958-43
EMPR BULL 53-74
GSC MAP 603A, 1742
UBC MSC THESIS, ORR 1971
EMPR PFD 674441

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