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File Created: 30-Aug-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)
Last Edit:  18-Sep-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)

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NMI
Name STAR, STAR NO.2 (L.11437) Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082K048
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082K08W
Latitude 050º 24' 55'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 25' 37'' Northing 5584962
Easting 540714
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Star occurrence is located at the head of Delphine Creek at an elevation of 1737 metres. The property consists of one Reverted Crown grant (Lot 11437).

Regionally, the area is underlain by Proterozoic clastic sedimentary rocks of the Purcell and Windermere supergroups and by lower Paleozoic strata of the Beaverfoot and Mount Forster formations (Geoscience Map 1995-1).

The Purcell Supergroup strata include the Aldridge, Creston, Kitchener, Dutch Creek and Mount Nelson formations. The Windermere Supergroup unconformably overlies the Purcell Supergroup rocks and includes the Toby Formation and Horsethief Creek Group (Paper 1990-1).

In the vicinity of the occurrence, rocks of the Kitchener and Dutch Creek formations have been further subdivided and assigned to the Van Creek and Gateway formations. The Van Creek Formation correlates with the Lower Kitchener Formation while the Gateway Formation is equivalent to the lower portion of the Dutch Creek Formation. The Mount Nelson Formation has been subdivided into seven discrete members, a lower quartzite, a lower dolomite, a middle dolomite, a purple dolomite, an upper middle dolomite, an upper quartzite, and an upper dolomite (Open File 1990-26).

Rocks of the Horsethief Creek Group, Beaverfoot and Mount Forster formations are folded and overthrusted by rocks of the upper portion of the Dutch Creek Formation and the lower members of the Mount Nelson Formation. The sedimentary rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to at least greenschist facies.

The Star is hosted within dolomite of the Mount Nelson Formation and is similar to the Hot Punch (082KSE034) which is just up the slope from this prospect (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1949). Mineralization occurs as fissure veins in sheared dolomite. A total of 3 tonnes were mined in 1921 to produce 4821 grams of silver and 1333 kilograms of lead. The occurrence consists of a single caved adit.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1926-241; 1915-93; *1949-199
EMPR BC METAL MM00581
EMPR FIELDWORK 1989, pp. 29-37
EMPR GEOS MAP 1995-1
EMPR PF (82KSE General File - Geology map by P. Billingsley, 1958)
GSC MAP 235A; 1326A
GSC MEM 148, p. 48; 369, p. 112
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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