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File Created: 20-May-1986 by Allan Wilcox (AFW)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082F14 Ag22
Name JAZMINE, DELORAINE (L.3156), SILVER TIP FR. (L.4881), CRISTEIN (L.5369), COLONIAL-SLOCAN, NELLIE, CHRISTINE Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F094
Status Prospect NTS Map 082F14E
Latitude 049º 57' 36'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 12' 08'' Northing 5534203
Easting 485495
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Jazmine property is located on the east side of the ridge that separates Cody and Sandon creeks at 1814 metres elevation above sea level, in the Slocan Mining Division. The property includes the Deloraine and the Silver Tip Fraction Reverted Crown grants (Lots 3156 and 4881 respectively).

The claims extend from the creek, at the 1310-metre elevation, to the summit of the north trending ridge at an elevation of about 1981 metres. The Airdrie Fraction, Freddie Lee (082FNW055), Colonial (082FNW069), and Cristein claims are located from north to south near the crest of the ridge.

In 1928 the Colonial, Freddie lee, Cristein, Airdrie Fraction, and Nellie claims were acquired under option by W.G. Wasmandorff of Vancouver. The Cristein claim (Lot 5369) had been Crown-granted to Messrs. McDonald and Taylor in 1904.

Colonial-Slocan Mines, Limited, was incorporated in May 1929 to acquire the claims and carry on exploration work. Work by the company ended in January 1930 and the company charter was surrendered in 1932.

Regionally, the area lies on the western margin of the Kootenay Arc, in allochthonous rocks of the Quesnel Terrane. In the vicinity of the occurrence, the Quesnel Terrane is dominated by the Upper Triassic Slocan Group, a thick sequence of deformed and metamorphosed shale, argillite, siltstone, quartzite and minor limestone. Rocks of the Slocan Group are tightly and disharmonically folded. Early minor folds are tight to isoclinal with moderate east plunging, southeast inclined axial planes and younger folds are open, southwest plunging with subhorizontal axial planes. The sedimentary sequence has been regionally metamorphosed to lower greenschist facies.

South of the occurrence, the Slocan Group has been intruded by the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions which comprise at least six texturally and compositionally distinct phases ranging from diorite to lamprophyre. The most dominant phase is a medium to coarse grained potassium feldspar porphyritic granite. Several feldspar porphyritic granodiorite dikes, apparently related to the Nelson intrusions, also cut the sedimentary sequence near the occurrence (Paper 1989-5).

On the property, argillite and slate of the Slocan Group are folded in a broad synclinal structure in which the beds dip generally east. A mineralized shear zone has been identified on the northwestern part of the property near the eastern boundary of the Cristein Crown grant (Lot 5369).

The shear zone strikes 040 degrees, dips 70 to 80 degrees southeast and is exposed for about 3 metres in an old trench. An adit was excavated downhill from the trench, apparently to explore the downdip extension of the shear but it is not known if the shear was intersected in the underground workings. A 1 metre chip sample collected from the mineralized shear in the trench assayed 972 grams per tonne silver, 52.42 per cent lead and 1.4 per cent zinc. The sample contained galena in quartz (Assessment Report 13529).

During 2007 through 2009, Klondike Gold Corp. completed programs of prospecting, soil sampling and trenching on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1902-298
EMPR ASS RPT 8871, 12529, *13529
EMPR BULL 29
EMPR EXPL 1985-C58
EMPR P 1989-5
EMPR PF (Starr, C.C. (1929): Report of Preliminary Examination of the
Colonial-Slocan Group, 6 p., map of workings 1"=40', in 082FNW069)
GSC MAP 273A; 1090A
GSC MEM 173; 184; 309
Höy, T. (2016-06-28): Technical Report – The Slocan Silver Camp

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