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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082K3 Zn1
Name LUCKY BOY, FOURTH OF JULY, JOCKER, WHITEWATER Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K005
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082K03E
Latitude 050º 01' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 05' 46'' Northing 5540674
Easting 493115
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Cadmium Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
J01 : Polymetallic manto Ag-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain, Kootenay, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Lucky Boy occurrence is a past producer, located 4 kilometres southwest of Retallack, British Columbia on the south side of Kaslo Creek. Production for 1938 and 1948 totalled 150 tonnes, resulting in 9455 grams of silver, 43 kilograms of cadmium, 2440 kilograms of lead and 14,059 kilograms of zinc. Three drillholes in 1950 failed to reveal further mineralization and further property work was abandoned.

Silver-lead-zinc mineralization occurs in the Triassic Slocan Group, locally consisting primarily of black fissile phyllites with interbedded limestone, calcareous phyllites and brown gritty quartzites. The general structural trend is 310 degrees, dipping generally southwesterly. Greenstones and ultramafic rocks of the Permian Kaslo Group unconformably underlie the Slocan Group to the east, also hosting silver-lead-zinc mineralization. Satellite stocks, dikes and sills are generally correlative with the Nelson batholith to the immediate south. Late-stage lamprophyre dikes are also common.

Little geological information is available for this occurrence. Country rocks consist of limestone, argillite, quartzite and slate of the Slocan Group.

Property work in 1935 consisted of surface workings and an adit, 23 metres long, driven along a contact between limestone and thin- bedded argillite. Massive galena and sphalerite mineralization were noted in fissures crosscutting the limestone. Further details of property development can be found in National Mineral Inventory 083K3 Zn1.

In 2020, Traction Exploration Inc. completed a program of geological mapping and rock sampling on the area as the Whitewater property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1935-E34,142; 1937-E51; 1938-A35; 1939-94; 1940-79; 1941-74; 1948-142; 1950-142
EMPR ASS RPT 39371
EMPR BC METAL MM01279 (includes 082FNW025 data, a different Lucky Boy)
EMPR INDEX *3-204
EMPR MINING 1975-1980, Vol.1, pp. 32,60
EMR MP RESFILE
GSC MAP 235A
GSC OF 432; *464
Sultan, M. (2020-10-05): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Whitewater Property, Slocan Mining Division, Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada
Sultan, M. (2021-04-24): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Whitewater Property, Slocan Mining Division, Kaslo, British Columbia, Canada
EMPR PFD 752815

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