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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-1997 by B. Neil Church (BNC)

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NMI 082F13 Sb1
Name CAROLINE Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F083
Status Showing NTS Map 082F13E
Latitude 049º 48' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 35' 04'' Northing 5516743
Easting 457943
Commodities Antimony, Gold Deposit Types I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Caroline property consisted of 9 claims and is located on the south side of Gwillim Creek, 9 kilometres northwest of the town of Slocan. An old upgraded wagon road connects the property to the town.

In 1948, Antimony Mines & Metals (Slocan), Limited, purchased the group from J.N. Russell. This company traced the vein for about 762 metres and did some sampling which showed good stibnite values, as well as traces of gold and other metals. It was planned to drive an adit into the vein, but the following year three holes were drilled on the vein exposures revealed no antimony. This company surrendered its charter in 1951.

The showing consists of a quartz vein in the bed of a northerly flowing tributary of Gwillim Creek. The country rock is a granite gneiss. The hillside is quite steep, and the vein is exposed along the creek bed for a vertical height of about 460 metres. The vein ranges in width from 0.6 to 1.5 metres and appears to be nearly vertical. Two lenses of stibnite, up to 7.6 centimetres in width, occur in the vein.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1948-148, 1949-191
EMPR PFD 2052, 2053, 2054

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