MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082FNW163

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	22-Jul-1997	by	B. Neil Church (BNC)

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		NMI
Name	HAPPY MEDIUM (L.5558), VELVEY, INTERNATIONAL, ECLIPSE NO. 2	Mining Division	Slocan
		BCGS Map	082F083
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082F14W
Latitude	049º 49' 24''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 25' 46''	Northing	5519077
		Easting	469110
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Gold	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Happy Medium property is located near the head of Van Tuyl Creek, 7 kilometres north-northeast of Slocan. Access is by road 1.5 kilometres east from the Slocan highway.

The Happy Medium property consists of the Happy Medium (Lot 5558), Velvey, International and Eclipse No. 2 Crown granted claims. Little is known about this property other than it is underlain by Nelson granite or mineralized crushed compositionally equivalent units.

Shipments of ore made in 1905 and 1906 amount to 12 tonnes grading 10 grams per tonne gold, 5,588 grams per tonne silver and 8.4 per cent lead.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1905-163; 1906-146,249; 1907-218 EMPR BC METAL MM01220 EMPR P 1989-5 GSC MAP 272A GSC MEM 184, p. 176