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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  10-Aug-2007 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI 082F11 Ag1,Au5
Name BARNETT (L.2888), LITTLE MONTANA (L.2889), PULASKIE (L.2890), G.H. (L.5502), FORT GEORGE (L.12080), ETTER (L.11729), RETTER (L.11728), SARA B Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F074
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F11W
Latitude 049º 44' 31'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 15' 39'' Northing 5509972
Easting 481207
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The property is located west of McGuire Creek, on the east side of Mount Ruppel, in Kokanee Glacier Provincial Park.

Country rock is potassium feldspar porphyritic granite. In the vicinity of the workings the granite is well jointed.

The quartz vein, tested by 3 short adits and 450 metres of stripping, follows a flat basal jointing plane trending southwest. Quartz vein occupies an argillic altered shear zone with sericitic wallrock (less than 1.0 metre) containing sparse amounts of sulphides. Pyrite, galena and argentite are the chief sulphides. A vein sample taken in 1987 assayed 1100 grams per tonne silver, 6.9 grams per tonne gold and 0.14 per cent lead. Another vein sample, 500 metres to the east assayed 510 grams per tonne silver, 14.2 per cent lead and 0.33 per cent zinc (Open File 1988-11).

Production values are not available. However, in 1950, R.G. McLeod shipped 8 tonnes of ore from the Sara B; McLeod held the property in the same year.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1071; 1899-689,842; 1905-163; 1906-248,252; 1921-141-142
EMPR BC METAL MM01385
EMPR BULL *7, p. 4-12
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48
EMPR INDEX 3-312
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P *1989-5, p. 26
EMPR PFD 2341, 2342, 2343, 2344, 823025

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