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File Created: 29-Sep-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)
Last Edit:  11-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name VIN Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K026
Status Showing NTS Map 082K07W
Latitude 050º 16' 51'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 54' 10'' Northing 5569860
Easting 506927
Commodities Lead, Zinc Deposit Types E12 : Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America, Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Vin occurrence is located at 1340 metres elevation above sea level on the south side of Glacier Creek, east of Duncan Lake 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 Vin occurrence is in grey, massive, banded or flecked marble of the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation which overlies the Hamill Group. The Badshot Formation is characterized by cliff-forming, white to medium grey, commonly laminated marble or dolomitic marble. The marble horizons are tens of metres thick and usually separated by grey, locally calcareous schist. The marble is overlain by a thick succession of fine grained, dark grey and green schists of the Index Formation (Lardeau Group).

Mineralization consists of disseminated pyrite, sphalerite and galena in siliceous dolomitic marble. The property has been explored with a series of trenches and seven diamond-drill holes totalling 575 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1964-131; 1965-197
EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 9-16
EMPR GEOS MAP 1995-1
EMPR PF (82KSE General File - Geology map by P. Billingsley, 1958)
GSC MAP 1326A
GSC MEM 369, p. 117
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Columbia, Canada, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of London,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
Lane, R.A. (2018-07-20): Technical Report on the Duncan Lake Zinc-Lead Project
EMPR PFD 4194

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