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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 GOLDSTREAM, RITA (L.5978), BEARPAW, LEGAL (L.5977), LOUISE FR. (L.5980), CHAPLEAU CREEK, RAGAMAC Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F074
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F11W
Latitude 049º 44' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 22' 16'' Northing 5509789
Easting 473260
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Goldstream claim, held on location in 1938, is 7 kilometres east-southeast of Slocan City. Access to the claim is from the Chapleau Creek road, about 2.5 kilometres northeast of the Kilo mine (082FNW131). See also 082FNW130, 132, 133, 135, 136.

Initial exploratory work on the property, carried out in 1931 and 1932, consisted entirely of trenching and stripping the vein. In 1938 an adit drift was driven westward from the bank of a creek. The only ore produced at this time amounted to 36 tonnes containing 684 grams of gold and 715 grams of silver.

The country rock on the claim consists of porphyritic Nelson granite. The vein which strikes 075 degrees and dips 20 degrees north, ranges in width from 15 to 40 centimetres and has been followed underground for 15 metres and on surface for 60 metres. In many places the vein splits into two or three branches. The vein is composed of white quartz with pyrite cubes and some galena.

King Jack Resources Ltd. conducted surveys on the Chapleau Creek property between 1985 to 1987.

The Rita vein strikes 320 degrees and dips 11 degrees northeast. A 15-centimetre sample assayed 20.2 grams per tonne gold, 17.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.35 per cent lead and 0.1 per cent zinc (Santos, 1986).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1899-690; 1900-831; 1901-1028; 1902-151; 1903-139; 1904-168,297; 1932-179; 1938-E8,A37
EMPR ASS RPT 10720, 13170, 17367
EMPR BC METAL MM01210
EMPR BULL 7, p. 2
EMPR GEM 1970-447
EMPR INDEX 3-198
EMPR P 1989-5
EMPR PF (Santos, P.J. (1986): Consolidated Report on the Chapleau Creek Property for King Jack Resources Ltd. in 082FNW135)
GSC MAP 1090A, 1091A
GSC MEM 308, pp. 156,161

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