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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Dec-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI
Name ROYAL Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F047
Status Showing NTS Map 082F07E
Latitude 049º 24' 54'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 43' 58'' Northing 5473625
Easting 519382
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Royal showings are located southwesterly from the Valparaiso (082FSE038) by about 0.5 kilometre, between 800 and 950 metres elevation on the north side of Ginol Creek, a small stream flowing down the steep east side of Kootenay Lake, 2 kilometres north of Sanca.

The geology is as described for the Valparaiso (082FSE038) - a quartz vein is hosted in biotite granite and granodiorite of the middle Cretaceous Bayonne batholith. The vein strikes northerly and dips to the east, and has been exposed intermittently over 200 metres; the dip varies to almost flat in places. The width of the vein is about 0.7 metre, and an average sample in one location assayed 1.1 per cent lead, 0.7 per cent zinc, 10 grams per tonne silver and trace gold; elsewhere, assays up to 140 grams per tonne silver and 0.7 gram per tonne gold, 38.9 per cent lead and 0.6 per cent zinc were obtained over picked widths of 45 centimetres (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927). Galena is the only sulphide described, but sphalerite is assumed to be present as well from the assay results.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-846; 1901-1226; 1902-301; 1904-298; *1927-322
GSC MEM 228 (Map 603A)
GSC OF 929; 2721

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