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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  29-Sep-2011 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name A, RK, ROCKING HORSE, ANTIMONY ZONE Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082K069
Status Showing NTS Map 082K09W
Latitude 050º 36' 46'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 21' 19'' Northing 5606964
Easting 545615
Commodities Antimony, Copper, Lead Deposit Types I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

Strata underlying the region of the J showing, from oldest to youngest, include: quartzite and dolomite of the Middle Proterozoic Mount Francis Formation (Purcell Supergroup); conglomerates and coarse clastic sediments of the Upper Proterozoic Toby Formation (Windermere Supergroup); slates, quartzites, grits and conglomerates of the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group; argillite and dolomite of the Cambrian to Ordovician McKay Group; dolomites of the Cambrian Jubilee Formation; dolomite, shale, sandstone and quartzite of the Ordovician to Silurian Beaverfoot Formation; argillite, argillaceous limestone and quartzite of the Middle Devonian Mount Forster Formation; and thin to medium-bedded biowacke stones of the Upper Devonian Starbird Formation. The strata form a broad, north plunging anticline, with numerous minor folds generally overturned to the east.

Antimony-copper-lead mineralization was explored in 1967 by Kodiak Mines Limited. Mapping and sampling were carried out.

The mineralization is erratically distributed in a flat-lying white limestone conglomerate near the top of a very steep rocky ridge. Mineralization is exposed for a distance of 40 metres in a north-south direction and approximately 52 metres in a southwest direction on the opposite side of the ridge. One local, shown on a Kodiak map, shows that antimony (presumably stibnite) is associated with a barite vein. Elsewhere it occurs as pods in conglomerate. Pertinent documents did not discuss mineralogy.

Bibliography
EM GEOFILE 2003-2
EMPR ASS RPT *1254, 6884
EMPR PRELIM MAP 62
GSC MAP 2070; 12-1957; 1326A
GSC MEM 148; 369
EMPR PFD 650067

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