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File Created: 10-May-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  08-Jul-2020 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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NMI
Name CD Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L077
Status Showing NTS Map 082L10W
Latitude 050º 43' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 46' 44'' Northing 5620012
Easting 374426
Commodities Zinc, Lead Deposit Types E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The CD occurrence is located near the Mara Lookout forest service road, east of Kingfisher Creek and approximately 20 kilometres northeast of Mara.

The area lies within the Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex, a belt of high- grade metamorphic rocks. Rocks on the property comprise a heterogeneous package of granitoid gneiss, augen gneiss, sillimanite-bearing schist and prominent marble and quartzite layers. See Kingfisher (MINFILE 082LNE007) for a detailed regional geology description.

Locally, semi-massive, coarse, black sphalerite with accessory pyrrhotite, pyrite and quartz is hosted by a diopside- bearing calc-silicate and marble in association with a quartzite. The mineralized zone varies over widths of 1.5 to 4.0 metres and has been traced for at least 30 metres along a north- north east strike.

In 2012, a rock sample assayed 0.474 per cent zinc and 0.356 per cent lead (Assessment Report 34180). The following year rock sampling of shallow hand trenches yielded up to 7.9 per cent zinc, while a 1.5 metre chip sample of trench 1 averaged 3.71 per cent zinc with 0.787 per cent lead (Assessment Report 34761). Sampling of trenches 2a and 2b, located approximately 20 metres to the south, yielded an average of 2.44 per cent zinc over 3 metres from trench 2a, while trench 2b, situated perpendicular to trench 2a, yielded 4.14 per cent zinc over 1.5 metres (Assessment Report 34761). In 2015, channel sampling of trench 3 yielded up to 2.86 per cent zinc over 0.5 metre, while grab samples yielded up to 5.49 per cent zinc and 0.54 per cent lead (Assessment Report 35513).

During 2012 through 2015, RIT Minerals completed programs of biogeochemical and geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, geological mapping, minor trenching and a 1.8 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area as the CD claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *34180, *34761, *35513
EMPR FIELDWORK 1975, pp. 11-18
EMPR GEOL 1975-G18-G30
EMPR OF 2000-22
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637
Ostler, J. (2014-06-27): Broken Hill-Type Sulphide Mineralization on the Colby Mines Property.

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