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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jan-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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NMI 082F14 Ag55
Name MOWITCH (L.4558), HOME RUN, ST. CLAIR (L.4559), ROSE MARIE (L.4003), GRAND STAND, RONALD FR. Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F094
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F14W
Latitude 049º 59' 56'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 19' 22'' Northing 5538557
Easting 476867
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Mowitch occurrence is located along St Clair Creek, 300 metres south of its confluence with Carpenter Creek. New Denver, British Columbia lies 3 kilometres to the west.

The Mowitch occurrence was found on the former Mowitch group, consisting of the Mowitch (Lot 4558), St. Clair (Lot 4559), Rose Marie (Lot 4003), Home Run, Grand Stand and Ronald Fraction claims. Work on this occurrence has been intermittent over many years. Workings consisted of four adits and explore two vein-lodes crosscutting Slocan Group metasediments. The lower lode is referred to as the Mowitch, and the upper lode as the Rosemarie (082FNW237). The Mowitch lode was explored by two adits 34 vertical metres apart, and a shaft sunk from the upper adit at 23 metres from the portal.

The Mowitch occurrence is underlain by quartzite, limestone and interbedded argillite, predominantly massive. These strata strike northwest, dip steeply to the northeast and are intruded by feldspar porphyry dikes.

The Mowitch vein-lode has a strike of 040 degrees and dips northeast. The vein-lode conforms closely to the bedding of enclosing blocky, massive pyritized argillite. The lode is a well defined quartz-siderite filled fissure, varying from a few to 30 centimetres wide. Mineralization consists of disseminated tetrahedrite and lesser galena.

Ore has been stoped for most of the length of the upper adit and over 73 metres from the lower adit. Production figures recorded for the Mowitch occurrence indicate 83 tonnes ore mined, producing 316,161 grams of silver and 870 grams of gold intermittently over the 23 year period from 1902 to 1925.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-986; 1904-180; 1919-154,370; 1920-125; 1924-198; 1925- 245; 1949-189
EMPR BC METAL MM01321
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48
EMPR INDEX 3-206
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P 1989-5
GSC MAP 273A; 1091A; 1667
GSC MEM *173; *184, pp. 90,91; *308, pp. 150,151,153
GSC SUM RPT 1916
EMPR PFD 895230, 895231, 895232

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