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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Dec-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name WOLF LAKE, WALDIE LAKE Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F015
Status Prospect NTS Map 082F03E
Latitude 049º 06' 05'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 03' 19'' Northing 5438728
Easting 495965
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Wolf Lake (Waldie Lake) showing is within an east trending fault zone which has been intruded by a quartz-porphyry dyke of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions. The fault and dyke system also host a late stage quartz vein which carries massive to disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite. Country rocks are the siliceous sediments and quartzites of the Hadrynian Three Sisters Formation of the Windermere Supergroup (correlative with rocks of the Horsethief Creek Group).

Grab samples of quartz and massive pyrite assayed up to 34 grams per tonne silver and 19 grams per tonne gold although the sampling showed generally lower values and the erratic metal distribution typical of such vein deposits (Assessment Report 12119). The 1 to 3 metre wide dyke has fault gouge developed along both contacts with the country rock.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1926-278; 1932-194
EMPR ASS RPT *12119, 12926
EMPR BULL 109
GSC MAP 52-19A; 299A; 1090A; *1145A
GSC MEM *172, p. 81; 308
GSC OF 1195
GSC P 49-22; 52-13

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