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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  05-Jul-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name VICTORY Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L075
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14E
Latitude 050º 45' 43'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 02' 19'' Northing 5625334
Easting 356227
Commodities Zinc, Silver Deposit Types E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Victory showing is a silicified zone, about 2.7 metres wide, that contains minor disseminated sphalerite and pyrite, and which is hosted in garnetiferous gneiss of the Proterozoic and/or Paleozoic Shuswap assemblage. The zone strikes about 325 degrees across Black Point, a promontory about 2 kilometres in length that juts into Mara Lake on the west side. The zone is characterized by considerable development of pegmatite.

A tunnel had been driven along this zone for 8.5 metres from a point at the south end of the promontory, at about 3 metres above the level of the lake. It followed a well-defined hangingwall with a northerly strike and dip to the west. At a distance of a metre from the portal, sphalerite was reported to be distributed in small quantities throughout the whole width of the zone. A shipment of about 37 tonnes of this material was made to the Trail smelter. Returns from this shipment were not available, but it is understood that they did not come up to the owner's expectations (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927, page C198).

A sample taken across 2.4 metres of the silicified zone, at the face of the tunnel, assayed trace gold, 6.8 grams per tonne silver and nil zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1927, page C198).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1927-C197,C198; 1936-D53
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 54-58; 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR OF 1990-30; 2000-22
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296, p. 150
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 175)
GSC P 48-4; 74-1A, pp. 25-30; 86-1A, pp. 81-88; 89-1E, pp. 51-60
CJES Vol.19 (Feb.1982), pp. 288-307; Vol.21 (Oct.1984), pp. 1171-1193

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