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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 KING JACK, TAIL HOLT (L.7358), TAILHOLT, JACK, KING GEORGE, CHAPLEAU CREEK Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F074
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F11W, 082F14W
Latitude 049º 44' 54'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 21' 46'' Northing 5510713
Easting 473865
Commodities Silver, Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Tail Holt property is in the head water area of Chapleau Creek, 7.2 kilometres east southeast of Slocan City. Access is from the Slocan highway via the Lemon Creek road. See also 082FNW130-134, 136.

The target of exploration in this area is a gold-bearing quartz vein 0.3 to 0.9 metre thick, dipping 20 degrees (northeast?) into the hill. Development work on this claim consists of a short adit, crosscut and a decline for about 20 metres down the vein. Work on this property was done mainly in the period 1898 to 1904.

About 100 metres south of the Tail Holt adit, the King Jack adit was driven in 1922 by the King Jack Mining Company, on an east-west trending, 30-degree north dipping vein for about 75 metres. A 6.4-metre chip sample assayed 14.4 grams per tonne gold and 1214 grams per tonne silver (Annual Report 1922, page 204).

Albury Resources prospected on the claim in 1982. From 1985 to 1987, the King Jack claim was surveyed and drilled as part of the Chapleau Creek property by King Jack Resources Ltd. The King Jack adit was rehabilitated in 1985. Resources are reported as 99,800 tonnes grading 12 grams per tonne gold and 392 grams per tonne silver (CMH 1989-90, page 259). Indicated and possible ore for the King Jack vein are reported in 1989 as 37,200 tonnes grading 7.85 grams per tonne gold and 79.9 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 22085). Total reserves for the Chapleau properties are reported as 505,200 tonnes grading 8 grams per tonne gold and 238 grams per tonne silver (CMH 1989-90, page 259). In July 1990, King Jack became International King Jack Resources Ltd., who became Petromin Resources Ltd. in April 1996.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1078; 1900-831; 1901-1028; 1902-151; 1904-168, *1922-203-204
EMPR ASS RPT 10805, *17367, 22085
EMPR BULL 7, p. 2
EMPR EXPL 1987-A21; 1988-C38
EMPR INF CIRC 1988-1, pp. 19, 58
EMPR P 1989-5
EMPR PF (Mackenzie, R.M. (1982): Note; *Santos, P.J. (1986): Consolidated Report on the Chapleau Creek Property for King Jack Resources Ltd.; Siems, P.L. (1989): Wallrock Alteration in Drill Core from the King Jack Resources Ltd. Property
GSC MAP 1090A
GSC MEM 308
CMH 1988-89, p. 278; 1989-90, p. 259

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