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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Feb-1988 by Derek A. Brown (DAB)

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Name REVENUE (L.7139), REVENUE FR. (L.7141), BIRTHDAY (L.7138), TAMARAC (L.7140) Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F085
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F14E
Latitude 049º 49' 36'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 07' 28'' Northing 5519366
Easting 491049
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

This property, comprising the Revenue (Lot 7139), Revenue Fraction (Lot 7141), Birthday (Lot 7138) and Tamarac (Lot 7140) Crown-granted claims, lies on the north slope of Sturgis creek, an eastern tributary of Keen creek. It is accessible by the road up Keen creek from Zwicky and thence by trail for 4 kilometres up the valley of Sturgis creek. The property was acquired from the original owners by the Sturgis Creek Mines, Limited. The Revenue property lies within Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.

Production in 1913, 1914, and 1916, amounted to 61 tonnes of silver-lead ore carrying an average of nearly 2640 grams per tonne silver and 54 per cent lead. In 1928 a further production of about 36 tonnes was reported.

The workings consist of four adits and some surface cuts. These explore a lode on a strike of north 15 degrees east and a dip varying from a high angle to the west to vertical. In June 1927, the underground workings aggregated over 180 metres of tunnelling.

A quartz filled fissure occurs in a strong shear-zone in rocks of the Nelson Batholith, carrying disseminations and concentrations of galena and sphalerite. The vein is 150 centimetres wide.

Sphalerite-rich layers and pods in quartz veins with patches of galena. Disseminated and massive pyrite in the veins. Limonitic fractures parallel the vein across a zone less than 3 metres wide.

Production from 1913 to 1941 totalled 246 tonnes yielding 676,832 grams silver, 217 grams gold, 78,776 kilograms lead and 20,679 kilograms zinc.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1902-153; 1905-159; 1907-97; 1911-290; 1912-325; 1913- 124,420; 1914-285,509; 1915-119; 1916-196,516; 1917-157,185; 1920-122; 1921-133; 1926-260; 1928-306,441; 1929-321; 1938-A35, E43; 1939-38; 1941-25
EMPR BC METAL MM01372
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48,535-541
EMPR GEM 1970-458
EMPR INDEX 3-210
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P 1989-5, pp. 14, 23
EMPR PF (Starr, C.C. (1928): Report of Examination of the Revenue Mine, 8 p.)
GSC MAP 272A; 1091A
GSC MEM *184, p. 243; 308, pp. 133,147
EMPR PFD 2306, 700084

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