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File Created: 16-Oct-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)
Last Edit:  08-Nov-1995 by Gilles J. Arseneau (GJA)

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Name BROKEN HILL (L.7042), CORONATION (L.7861) Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K045
Status Showing NTS Map 082K06E
Latitude 050º 25' 41'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 10' 04'' Northing 5586239
Easting 488083
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Broken Hill property is situated on the southeast side of Rapid Creek, west of the Lardeau River, 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).

On the Broken Hill property, grey phyllitic rocks of the Index Formation are cut by metadiorite dikes. Quartz veins and stringers are developed within the dikes and at the contact with the phyllite. The veins carry arsenopyrite and gold. The property has been explored by at least one short adit driven on a quartz vein near the southwest boundary of Lot 7042.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1903-126; 1905-250; 1912-326
EMPR ASS RPT 8483, 8862, 11813, 14519, *15698, 16180, 19235
GSC BULL 193
GSC MAP 235A; 1277A
GSC MEM 161
GSC OF 432; 464

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