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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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Name CHRISTINA (L.10596), VIRGEL (L.10595), VIRGIL Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F084
Status Showing NTS Map 082F14E
Latitude 049º 50' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 14' 34'' Northing 5520870
Easting 482543
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Christina (Lot 10596) and the adjoining Virgel (Lot 10595) reverted crown granted claims are located just south of Paupo Mountain, at about 2300 metres elevation, 17 kilometres northeast of the town of Slocan. Access to the property is by trail from a point one kilometre west of Paupo Creek on the Enterprise Creek road. The property lies in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.

The property was staked near the turn of the century by M. Murphy who did considerable surface prospecting and drove a couple of short adits. This work has explored a northerly trending fissure-vein lode hosted by a coarse grained, porphyrytic phase of the Nelson batholith. The lode is narrow but persistent and somewhat like that on the Para claim (082FNW105) to the west. The vein is filled with quartz and a small amount of galena, pyrite and high grade silver minerals. Good silver values are reported to have been obtained at intervals on the vein which has been traced for more than 90 metres.

A grab sample taken in 1987, analysed 5.9 grams per tonne silver, 0.01 per cent lead and 0.19 per cent zinc (EMPR Paper 1989-5, page 21).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1912-326; 1919-131
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P 1989-5, p. 23
GSC MAP 272A, 1090A
GSC MEM 184, p. 156

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