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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  21-Nov-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI 082F2 Au2
Name HARRIS, WALL, SILVER WALL Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F015
Status Showing NTS Map 082F02W
Latitude 049º 11' 12'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 59' 58'' Northing 5448207
Easting 500040
Commodities Lead Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The property is located at elevations of approximately 1768 to 1890 metres on the south side of Wall Mountain, near the bead of the west fork of Wall Creek, some 35.4 kilometres west-northwest of Creston.

A claim adjacent to the Spokane group, and owned in 1915 by a Mr. Harris, was located on the westerly extension of the Spokane vein (082FSE032). This ground was apparently in part held as the Hilltop and Sitka (082FSW232) claims, owned in 1937 by John Bull. See Spokane for exploration details.

The Harris showing is originally reported on in the Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1915, where it is described as lying adjacent and to the west of the Spokane (082FSE032) vein, probably an extension of that vein. An opencut about 6 metres long exposes a 15-20 centimetre wide quartz vein containing galena and a little pyrite; no assays are reported. Exploration traced the vein toward the Spokane, where it remained narrow. The vein strikes 283 degrees.

The vein is hosted in biotite granodiorite of the Wall stock, presumed to belong to the Middle Jurassic Nelson intrusions; just to the south of and downslope from the vein, grit and quartzite of the Upper Proterozoic Three Sisters Formation (Horsethief Creek Group) occur. Metamorphic grade of this area is high (kyanite-staurolite-sillimanite amphibolite: Geological Survey of Canada Map 1714A).

In 1982 and 1984, the area to the west of the Spokane vein has been explored by Nugget Mines Ltd. (Assessment Reports 10841, 13393); a geophysical and geochemical survey suggested extensions of the vein both to the west and to the east of the Spokane.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1915-174; 1917-167
EMPR ASS RPT 10841, 13393, 16909, 23699
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp. 135-155
GSC MEM 228 (Map 603A)
GSC OF 929; 2721

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