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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Sep-1999 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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Name BURNIERE (L.4198), BODMIN, ST. MABYN, BURNIERE 1 (L.4198), BURNIERE 2 (L.4199), COPPER KING Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082K082
Status Showing NTS Map 082K13E
Latitude 050º 51' 02'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 41' 29'' Northing 5633434
Easting 451330
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Burniere (Lot 4198) is located near the headwaters of Scott Creek, on the east slopes of Mount McKinnon (Comaplix Mountain). Free Gold, galena, chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite occur in a white quartz vein, up to 1.5 metres wide, striking 300 degrees, dipping 80 degrees southwest. The vein cuts a greenstone dike which has been altered to rusty weathering carbonate rock and contains green chromium mica. The dike occurs in phyllites of the Lardeau Group. Gold tends to be concentrated on fracture surfaces associated with the chromium mica. Faults cut the vein, which has been traced for 120 metres.

Grid Resources Ltd. investigated the property in 1983. An 80-centimetre sample assayed 67.5 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 12332).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1064; 1899-676; 1906-140; 1907-94; 1909-104; 1910-95; 1911-129; 1914-248; 1916-194; 1918-190; 1919-140,151; 1920-128; 1925-261
EMPR ASS RPT *12332
EMPR PF (Emmens, N.W. (1914): Report on the Mineral Resources of the Lardeau Mining Division, pp. 8-9, in 082KNW General)
GSC MAP 235A
GSC MEM *161, pp. 23,36,40,120
GSC OF 288; 432; 464
EMPR PFD 521013, 521014

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