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File Created: 20-Oct-1987 by Laura L. Coughlan (LLC)
Last Edit:  08-Mar-1991 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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Name WANETA 6, WANETA 1-10 Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F003
Status Showing NTS Map 082F03W
Latitude 049º 02' 47'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 28' 34'' Northing 5432722
Easting 465208
Commodities Silver, Lead, Copper, Gold, Arsenic, Antimony Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay, Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Underlying the area of the Waneta occurrence are black argill- ite, slate, phyllite, chert, greenstone and minor limestone of what Little (1985) calls the "Pend d'Oreille Sequence" of Yates. These have a Silurian(?), Lower and Middle Devonian, and Carboniferous(?) age (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 1195, page 9). These rocks are intruded by Middle Eocene Sheppard Intrusions comprised of masses of granite and syenite with associated dykes.

Minor malachite is associated with argillite and brecciated argillite that is flanked by two mafic syenite dykes. Minor chal- copyrite and galena were discovered in a small pod of mineralization in the Sheppard Intrusive rocks on the Waneta 6 claim. In 1984, a sample taken from a siliceous, pyritic limestone near a chert horizon on the same claim, assayed 0.01 grams per tonne gold, and 4.6 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 13489). Also in 1984, several chip samples were taken along a plane of the major Waneta fault, these samples returned anomalous values in silver, arsenic, gold, antimony and copper.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 11536, *13489
EMPR BULL 109
EMPR EXPL 1983-56; 1984-39
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43
EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1991-16
GSC MAP 1090A; 1504A
GSC MEM 308
GSC P 79-26

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