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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 EVENING STAR NO. 8 (L.5226), SILVER CROWN (L.5227), ECLIPSE NO. 2 (L.5229), COLUMBIA NO. 5 (L.5225), SOMERSET (L.5224), UNKNOWN GROUP (L.5230) Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F073
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F14W
Latitude 049º 45' 46'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 24' 01'' Northing 5512333
Easting 471172
Commodities Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Evening Star property is at 1675 metres elevation on the slopes east of Dayton Creek, 4.5 kilometres due east of Slocan. Access to the property is from a switchback mountain road that joins the Springer Creek road at Coldwell Creek, about 8 kilometres by road east of the Slocan highway.

The Evening Star property, which was first staked in 1894, comprises the Evening Star No. 8 (Lot 5226), Silver Crown (Lot 5227), Eclipse No. 2 (Lot 5229), Columbia No. 5 (Lot 5225), Somerset (Lot 5224) and Unknown Group (Lot 5230) Crown granted claims and fractions.

A quartz vein in Nelson granite has been explored by an adit and shaft. The vein strikes variably from 150 to 175 degrees, dips 55 to 75 degrees northeast. It is about 1 metre wide and carries some pyrite and galena.

Production of mainly hand cobbed ore from this property in 1896, 1918 and 1941 totals 42 tonnes grading 23 grams per tonne gold and 6646 grams per tonne silver.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1896-73; 1897-535; 1898-1075,1077; 1899-689; 1901-1223; 1905-251; 1917-163; 1918-195; 1919-155; 1941-27,63
EMPR BC METAL MM01187
EMPR INDEX 3-196
EMPR 1989-5
GSC MAP 272A, 1091A
GSC MEM 184, pp. 174-175; 308, p. 154
EMPR PFD 20427, 20428

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