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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Dec-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI
Name GOLD QUEEN, GOLD KING Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F047
Status Showing NTS Map 082F07E
Latitude 049º 27' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 44' 04'' Northing 5477516
Easting 519248
Commodities Gold, Copper, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The location of the Gold Queen (Gold King) is so poorly known that it is difficult to plot it. It is described only as "At this prospect, between Gray Creek and Boswell, a crosscut tunnel is being driven below the highway to test the superficial showings of gold-copper ore described under Gold Queen in Bulletin No. 1, 1932" (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1933). A shipment of 2 tonnes of gold-silver ore is mentioned in the Minister of Mines Annual Report for 1931, but no grade or recovered metals are given. The showing is assumed to be a quartz vein with chalcopyrite. The coordinates given in the MINFILE data file would position the showing right on top of Copper Canyon (082FSE045), which has the same metals (copper, silver and gold).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-298?; 1931-138; *1933-240; 1934-A27; 1936-G48?
EMPR BULL 1
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721

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