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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Oct-1995 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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Name LEMAX NORTH SPHALERITE, LEONTOWICZ CLAIM BLOCK, LEMAX Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K004
Status Showing NTS Map 082K03W
Latitude 050º 03' 43'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 22' 04'' Northing 5545583
Easting 473676
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Lemax North sphalerite veins are located 4.5 kilometres northeast of Rosebery, on the east side of Wilson Creek, east of Slocan Lake.

Veinlets carrying quartz, pyrite and sphalerite are shown on figure 3, Assessment Report 7514. The veins are shown to crosscut quartzites (figure 3, Assessment Report 7514) of the Triassic Slocan Group which is composed of quartzites, argillites and limestones. Slocan Group sedimentary rocks are intruded by quartz monzonite of the Rosebery stock of unknown age (GSC Open File 432). There is no additional published information on the occurrence.

Prospecting work is mentioned in 1935 (GSC Memoir 184). The property was staked by Peter Leontowicz and optioned to United Bata Resources Limited (later Pan Ocean Oil Limited), who in 1970 (Assessment Report 2944) undertook reconnaissance soil sampling (875 samples analysed for molybdenum and copper). In 1979, Amax Potash Limited optioned the property and undertook a program of geological mapping and collected 369 soil and stream sediment samples which were analysed for 11 elements including lead, zinc and silver.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2944, 7514
GSC MEM 184, p. 41
GSC OF 432

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