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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-Sep-2007 by Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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NMI 082K13 WO1
Name UNITED VICTORY Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082K093
Status Showing NTS Map 082K13E
Latitude 050º 54' 35'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 33' 36'' Northing 5639943
Easting 460622
Commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum Deposit Types K05 : W skarn
K07 : Mo skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The United Victory showing is on the north side of Boyd Creek, a tributary of Incomappleux River, about 27 kilometres northeast of Beaton. The showings are on a steep, westerly facing hillside which has been burned over, 800 metres north of Boyd Creek (ca. 1944).

The lower end of the mineralized zone is at about 945 metres elevation and the northern end is nearly 152 metres higher. A sill-like body of granite about 61 metres wide follows the steeply dipping Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation limestone on a northwesterly strike. The limestone dips west at about 70 degrees, and the granite cuts the bedding only locally. Skarn is developed on the downhill or hangingwall granite contact for a thickness of 0.6 to 2.4 metres; this is garnetite for the most part but there is also locally a silicification and a patchy development of coarse, dark green pyroxene and some epidote. There is very little sulphide in the skarn, molybdenite being the most abundant. Scheelite is present throughout the skarn, though varying greatly in quantity; it has a yellow fluorescence.

The showings extend for about 487 metres diagonally along the hillside. Seven short diamond-drill holes were put in to intersect the skarn at depths below the outcrop of 30 to 91 metres along a strike length of 195 metres (Bralorne Mines Ltd., ca. 1943). The holes indicate the granite contact to be more irregular than is apparent at surface and that the skarn is more erratically distributed. From the core left on the property only one intersection of 0.8 metre length showed fairly strong mineralization, 4 showed weakly mineralized skarn, and 2 intersected no skarn. The best showing is at the extreme north end. Bralorne sampling on a length of 14 metres yielded 2.23 per cent WO3 over a width of 0.5 metre (Hedley, 1944).

The property consisting of 5 claims was first staked by B. Oakey and H. Gunterman of Beaton and J.M. Humphrey of West Vancouver, B.C. in 1942 on showings of scheelite in a skarn. Later in the year it was optioned by Bralorne Mines Ltd. and the staking augmented to 24 claims. Bralorne did some diamond drilling in February and relinquished the option in May, 1943. Interest in the property appears to have died out at the end of the war. A short adit (2 metres high and 3.5 metres long) is located below the skarn zone. The showing was restaked by Mel de Quadros in 1979 and prospecting conducted.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1942-A79; 1943-A78
EMPR BULL 10 (Rev.), pp. 130,131
EMPR PF (* Report by M.S. Hedley, 1944)
GSC MEM 161
GSC OF 288; 432; 464; 481
EMPR PFD 4093, 810779, 810780, 810781

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