MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082FSW316

File Created:	03-Nov-1986	by	Brian Grant (BG)
Last Edit:	10-Jun-1991	by	Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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		NMI
Name	BLUEBIRD, APEX, ENDORA, TAMARAC	Mining Division	Nelson
		BCGS Map	082F044
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082F06E
Latitude	049º 25' 35''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 11' 56''	Northing	5474876
		Easting	485577
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Lead	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Bluebird showing is located on the summit of Evening Ridge, about 9 kilometres southeast of Nelson.

The area is underlain by granite of the Late to Middle Jurassic Nelson Intrusions (Nelson batholith) near the contact with Lower Jurassic Ymir Group sediments.

A quartz vein about 0.25 metre wide has been traced along a strike of 320 degrees in granite. The vein dips 53 degrees north and contains rusty quartz gangue with disseminations of pyrite and galena. Gold assays are variable from 2 to 30 grams per tonne over widths of 20 to 30 centimetres and silver values vary from 13 to 50 grams per tonne (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1928, page 325).


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1928-325 EMPR BULL 41; 109 EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 149-158; 1981, pp. 28-32, pp. 176-186; 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 247-249; 1990, pp. 291-300 EMPR MAP 7685G; RGS 1977; 8480G EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1991-16 GSC MAP 51-4A; 1090A GSC MEM 308 GSC OF 1195 EMPR PFD 904553, 904885, 823016, 823022