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MINFILE No 082FSW261

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	11-Mar-1991	by	Brian Grant (BG)

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		NMI
Name	CARIBOU, CANUCK, CANADIAN - CARIBOO	Mining Division	Nelson
		BCGS Map	082F025
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082F03E
Latitude	049º 14' 00''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 06' 15''	Northing	5453400
		Easting	492417
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay

Capsule Geology

A small quartz vein striking 057 degrees and dipping 35 to 40 degrees southeast is hosted by black argillites of the Lower and Middle Ordovician Active Formation. Mineralization consists of pyrite, pyrrhotite, galena, and sphalerite and has been exposed in a short adit and a number of surface trenches.

The vein produced 1,992 tonnes of ore in 1938, 1939 and 1940 with all but 52 tonnes being mined in 1940. From the total mined 511 grams of gold and 829 grams of silver were recovered.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1902-297; 1927-307; 1928-326,342; 1930-280; 1938-A37; 1939- 40; 1940-27 EMPR ASS RPT 7010, 9521 EMPR BULL 1, p. 123; 109 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 11-27; 1990, pp. 9-31 EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1990-8; 1990-9; 1991-2; 1991-16 GSC MAP 299A; 1090A; 1145A GSC MEM 172, p. 73; 308 GSC OF 1195