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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Feb-1988 by Jim M. Logan (JML)

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Name PARA (L.5662), ROYAL Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F084
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F14E
Latitude 049º 50' 34'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 14' 46'' Northing 5521179
Easting 482304
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

This property, comprising two claims, is situated at the head of Paupo Creek, a tributary of Enterprise Creek. The property lies in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.

An adit drive along the strike is in about 76 metres, and if continued for a few metres further would strike daylight on the other side of the ridge. An 18-metre raise has been driven 48 metres from the portal. From these workings some 15 tonnes of ore has been extracted; of this, 6 tonnes was shipped in 1904. A sample taken across a width of 10 centimetres at the face of the tunnel ran 2.74 grams per tonne gold, 634.3 grams per tonne silver and 1.5 per cent zinc. A sample across a width of 10 centimetres in a small stope near the end of the tunnel ran 0.69 gram per tonne gold, 2005 grams per tonne silver, and 1.5 per cent zinc. A grab sample from a 9-tonne pile of sorted ore for shipment ran 0.69 gram per tonne gold, 4063 grams per tonne silver, and 4 per cent zinc (Annual Report 1919, page 131).

Country rock is coarse-grained potassium feldspar porphyritic granite. The vein occupies a fault-fissure, striking north 10 degrees west which varies in width up to a metre. The hangingwall is well defined and marked by 15 centimetres of gouge-argillic alteration. Mineralization includes pyrite, sphalerite, and galena in a quartz gangue. Tetrahedrite and pyrargyrite have been reported. Quartz vein is banded, alternating white and grey quartz containing disseminated pyrite.

A grab sample of dump material taken in 1987 assayed 1750 grams per tonne silver, 1 gram per tonne gold, 0.03 per cent copper, 2.16 per cent lead and 36.5 per cent zinc (Open File 1988-11).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1919-131; 1924-201; 1925-246
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48,535-541
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P 1989-5, p. 23
GSC MAP 272A
GSC MEM 184, p. 183

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