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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 ONTARIO NO. 2 (L.3182), JESSIE-BLUEBIRD, JESSIE, BLUE BIRD, NEPTUNE Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F085
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F14E
Latitude 049º 48' 32'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 04' 29'' Northing 5517385
Easting 494624
Commodities Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Ontario No. 2 reverted Crown granted claim (Lot 3182) is located 4 kilometres southwest of Woodbury Mountain, 29 kilometres east-northeast of the town of Slocan. Access to the property is by road and trail up Woodbury Creek to Silver Spray Creek and thence 1.6 kilometres west-northwest to the top of the ridge - a total distance of 17 kilometres west of Kootenay Lake. The property lies in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.

Production from this property, consisting mostly of hand cobbed ore, began in 1907 and continued intermittently through 1921. Total production was 161 tonnes, yielding 1743 kilograms of silver, 31 grams of gold and 15,854 kilograms of lead.

The workings include two adits connected by a 30-metre raise and stopes, comprising about 460 metres of underground development. These and other small workings explore a 1 to 10-metre wide shear zone in porphyritic Nelson granite. The lode strikes 075 degrees and dips 55 to 75 degrees northwest. Where visible, the deposit consists of gouge, crushed wallrock, quartz and ore minerals. The quartz is commonly banded and forms lenses of varying width. The ore minerals consist of massive and disseminated galena, pyrite and silver-bearing sulphides in the quartz that cements and replaces the shattered fragments of wallrock. Alteration of wallrock includes chlorite, limonite and sericite.

A vein sample taken in 1987 assayed 690 grams per tonne silver, 0.3 gram per tonne gold, 0.59 per cent lead and 0.0323 per cent zinc (Open File 1988-11).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1906-143; 1907-96,213,218; 1908-93,246; 1909-106; 1910-97, 243; 1911-131; 1921-131,132; 1929-325
EMPR BC METAL MM01346
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48
EMPR INDEX 3-201
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P 1989-5, p. 23
GSC MAP 272A; 1091A
GSC MEM 184, p. 239; 308, pp. 133,147
EMPR PFD 822963, 822964, 822965

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