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File Created: 14-Sep-1995 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  15-Sep-1995 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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Name MOUNTAIN MEADOW GALENA Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K002
Status Prospect NTS Map 082K04W
Latitude 050º 04' 27'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 46' 59'' Northing 5547171
Easting 443967
Commodities Lead, Silver, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Mountain Meadow Galena showing is located on Meadow Mountain, approximately 15 kilometres northeast of Burton. Good access is available on gravel roads to the western edge of the property.

The showing (Assessment Report 7829) is a set of 1 to 6 centimetre thick quartz veins which carry lenses of galena and pyrite within vuggy quartz. The veins strike approximately 160 degrees, generally dipping steeply east and outcrop over a length of 1000 metres. The largest vein of the set carries erratic lenses of massive galena (Assessment Report 7829) and reaches 90 centimetres in thickness. The average of three grab samples taken in 1982 (Assessment Report 11865) was 4.6 per cent lead, 1.8 grams per tonne gold and 63.5 grams per tonne silver.

Hostrocks are quartz diorites of the Jurassic Ruby Range stock, which intrudes east trending, steeply dipping clastic sedimentary and mafic volcanic rocks of the Triassic Slocan Group. Potassium-argon dating of biotite from the Ruby Range stock yielded an age of 123 million years (Geological Survey of Canada Open File 464).

During 1979 (Assessment report 7829) the property was geologically mapped, prospected and 960 soil and silt geochemical samples collected and analysed for molybdenum, copper, zinc and lead.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7829, 11865
GSC BULL 161
GSC OF 432

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