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MINFILE No 082FNW120

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

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		NMI
Name	SMUGGLER (L.5742)	Mining Division	Slocan
		BCGS Map	082F075
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082F14E
Latitude	049º 45' 36''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 10' 26''	Northing	5511961
		Easting	487476
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold, Copper, Arsenic	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Smuggler is located in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park. Smuggler mineralization occurs along a northwest trending structure that hosts Slocan Chief (082FNW119) and Molly Gibson (082FNW121). The galena-sphalerite-arsenopyrite-quartz-iron carbonate veins characteristically are black (manganese oxide) weathering. The veins are unique in that they contain abundant arsenopyrite. The veins are vuggy with variable amounts of chalcedonic quartz.

A grab sample taken in 1987, assayed 1100 grams per tonne silver, 8.43 per cent arsenic, 2.2 grams per tonne gold, 0.22 per cent copper, 4.89 per cent lead and 5.4 per cent zinc (Open File 1988-11).

Production, sometime before 1928 amounted to 13 tonnes grading 9463 grams per tonne silver and 65 per cent lead.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1928-306-307 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48, 535-541 EMPR OF 1988-11 EMPR PAPER 1989-5, p. 19 GSC MAP 272A GSC MEM 184, p. 247 EMPR PFD 2330