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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-Sep-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)

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NMI
Name FOG Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K026
Status Showing NTS Map 082K02W
Latitude 050º 14' 18'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 54' 36'' Northing 5565134
Easting 506418
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper Deposit Types E12 : Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn
E13 : Irish-type carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay, Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Fog property is located 2.5 kilometers southeast of the Duncan Dam, at 1500 metres elevation above sea level, in the Slocan Mining Division.

Regionally, the area lies within the Kootenay Arc near the margins of the Ancestral North American Terrane. The Kootenay Arc is a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Eocambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Ordovician, Devonian and Mississippian granitoid plutons. The rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies (Paper 1993-1).

The Fog prospect is on the western limb of the Duncan anticline within dolomite and limestone of the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation which forms a narrow complexly folded band that separates micaceous quartzite of the Mohican Formation (Hamill Group) to the east from the phyllites of the Lardeau Group to the west. On the property, the Badshot Formation is overturned, dips at low angle to the northeast and plunges northwest.

Mineralization is exposed in roadcuts and trenches over a strike length of at least four claims. It consists of a 3 to 8 metre wide quartz vein which is subparallel to the foliation of the enclosing dolomite. The vein is mostly of pure white quartz but locally contains fluorite, calcite, azurite, malachite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and pyrrhotite (Assessment Report 3323).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1904-162; 1967-258
EMPR ASS RPT 1015, 1561, 3323, *3923, 13504
EMPR BULL 49, pp. 76-77
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 9-16
EMPR GEM 1969-336, Fig. 41, #52; 1971-420; 1972-69
EMPR GEOS MAP 1995-1
EMPR PF (82KSE General File - Geology map by P. Billingsley, 1958)
GSC MAP 1326A
GSC MEM 369, p. 116
Pope, A.J. (1989): The Tectonics and Mineralization of the Toby- Horsethief Creek Area, Purcell Mountains, Southeast British Columbia, Canada, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of London, England.

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