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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Nov-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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Name PEGGY Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F018
Status Showing NTS Map 082F02E
Latitude 049º 09' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 32' 28'' Northing 5444232
Easting 533463
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Peggy showing is located on the abandoned grade of the Great Northern Railway about 3.2 kilometres south of Wynndel in the Purcell Trench. Two opencuts in 1929 exposed a quartz vein striking 010 degrees and dipping 80 degrees west, hosted in mica schist that is mapped as part of the Middle Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup of Middle Proterozoic age: Brown et al., Fieldwork 1994).

The vein varies in width from 0.3 to 1.2 metres and contains minor amounts of galena and sphalerite with associated silver and gold values. A sample of selected sulphides from the north opencut assayed 3.25 per cent lead, 0.4 per cent zinc, 10.3 grams per tonne silver and 0.7 gram per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1930).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1930-279
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp. 135-155
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929, 2721
EMPR PFD 503087

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