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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Oct-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)

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NMI
Name BS, SNOWBALL Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K045
Status Prospect NTS Map 082K06E
Latitude 050º 27' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 05' 37'' Northing 5589411
Easting 493355
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper Deposit Types J01 : Polymetallic manto Ag-Pb-Zn
E13 : Irish-type carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The BS occurrence is situated between Hope and Lake creeks, 1.5 kilometres east of Mount Johnson in the Slocan Mining Division.

Regionally, the area lies within the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. The occurrence is within the Kootenay Arc, a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the Paleozoic Lardeau and Milford groups. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoid plutons.

The Lardeau River area of the Selkirk Mountains is mainly underlain by massive pillow lavas, volcanic breccia and green phyllitic rocks of the Index Formation and by grey-green mica schist of the Broadview Formation. Grey phyllitic rocks and marble of the Milford Group are exposed near the edges of the Mesozoic Mobbs Creek, Rapid Creek and Poplar Creek stocks. All rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies. Rocks of the Milford Group have also been affected by thermal metamorphism (Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 193).

The occurrence is underlain by limestone, schist and arenites of the Index Formation of the Lardeau Group. The strata are overturned on the limb of an anticline. Drag folds plunge northwest and the area is cut by two northwest trending transverse faults.

At the BS showing, pyrite, galena, sphalerite and tetrahedrite occur in bands of silicified limestone near the phyllite contact. The bands are lenticular in shape and can attain up to 4.5 metres in width. Most of the mineralization is low grade. The occurrence is identical to, and on the same geological contact as the PHD, 082KSW081, one kilometre to the northwest.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1914-324
EMPR ASS RPT *86, 5736, 6461
EMPR EXPL 1977-E65
EMPR GEM 1975-E45
EMPR OF 2000-22
GSC BULL 193
GSC MAP 235; 1277A
GSC MEM 161
GSC OF 432; 464

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