MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082KSW024

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	11-Dec-1995	by	Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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		NMI
Name	NIL DESPERANDUM (L.2806)	Mining Division	Slocan
		BCGS Map	082K005
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	082K03E
Latitude	050º 02' 28''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 11' 13''	Northing	5543218
		Easting	486614
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Nil Desperandum occurrence is located 500 metres south of Fish Lake and 1.25 kilometres east-northeast of the former Lucky Jim mine (082KSW023). Kaslo, British Columbia lies roughly 28 kilometres to the southeast.

A couple of short adits, 46 vertical metres apart, were driven on the Nil Desperandum Reverted Crown grant. These explored at depth several irregular vein quartz outcrops in slates of the Triassic Slocan Group. Numerous quartz porphyry dikes and sills crosscut Slocan strata.

The quartz is stained with copper carbonates and is sparsely mineralized with pyrite, galena, sphalerite and a little tetrahedrite.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1898-1192 EMPR PF (Snell, J.C. (1977): The Geology and Mineralization of the Triassic Basal Slate Member, Slocan Sediments, Whitewater District of British Columbia, in 082K General File) GSC MAP 1667 GSC MEM 184, p. 238 GSC OF 432; 464 Placer Dome File