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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jan-1996 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI
Name BLUE RAIN Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F029
Status Showing NTS Map 082F01W
Latitude 049º 13' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 19' 04'' Northing 5451951
Easting 549681
Commodities Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Blue Rain property is east of and adjoins the Star or Leadville property (082FSE006). Traces of tetrahedrite in quartzite have been observed over a large area; a few short diamond-drill holes have been drilled at random locations in order to prospect the occurrence. It has been described as tetrahedrite "scattered" in quartzite by N. Carter (1993). A grab sample in 1957 assayed 10 grams per tonne silver, nil copper, less than 0.1 per cent nickel and only trace gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1957). Hostrocks are not described in detail, but consist of quartzite of the Aldridge Formation, part of the Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1957-62
EMPR FIELDWORK 1993, pp. 129-151; 1994, pp. 111-125
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721

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