MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082KSW138

File Created:	28-Nov-1995	by	Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)
Last Edit:	18-Sep-2007	by	Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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		NMI	082K3 Ag6
Name	RUBY SILVER (L.515), RUBY SILVER MINE	Mining Division	Slocan
		BCGS Map	082K005
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082F14E, 082K03E
Latitude	050º 00' 04''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 11' 35''	Northing	5538772
		Easting	486165
Commodities	Silver, Lead	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Ruby Silver occurrence is located at 2286 metres elevation between the headwater of the south fork of McGuigan Creek and Rambler Creek. The occurrence is 450 metres east-southeast of the former Antoine mine (082KSW011). New Denver, British Columbia is 10 kilometres to the southwest.

The former Ruby Silver mine is hosted in slates and argillites of the Triassic Slocan Group. These strata are in turn intruded by quartz porphyry dikes. A small tonnage of high grade silver-lead ore was mined from a fissure-vein lode. The average grade of ore was 7234 grams per tonne silver and 51 per cent lead (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 184, page 116).

Total recorded production from the former Ruby Silver mine amounted to 36 tonnes with 262,976 grams silver and 18,592 kilograms lead recovered.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1893-1060; 1895-676,679; 1896-58,63,560; 1906-249; 1908-99,247 EMPR BC METAL MM01368 EMPR INDEX 3-211 GSC MAP 1667 GSC MEM 173, Map 273A; 184, p. 116 GSC OF 432; 464