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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  10-Jun-2020 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name ROADSIDE, SHUSWAP SILVER Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L075
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14E
Latitude 050º 47' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 06' 58'' Northing 5628607
Easting 350851
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Lead, Silver Deposit Types E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Roadside occurrence is exposed on a cliff face on the south shoulder of Highway 1, and is part of the Shuswap Silver property, approximately 18 kilometres northeast of Salmon Arm.

Locally, the property is underlain by the Sicamous and Tsalkom Formations and Silver Creek assemblage (Mount Ida Group).

Mineralization occurs as very fine to medium-grained pyrrhotite and pyrite with accessory galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite in rocks that consist of foliated and sheared quartzites at the east edge of a much broader zone of yellow clay alteration. Additional thin and usually discontinuous seams of massive sulphides appear within the zone of altered hostrocks, often associated with white quartz.

In 2011, MatNic Resources Inc. completed airborne VTEM and magnetometer geophysical surveys, prospecting and rock, silt and soil sampling. Highlights include chip sample 545587, which assayed 1.28 per cent zinc and 2.2 grams per tonne silver over 0.35 metres (Assessment Report 32490).

For full property history and regional geology, see the main Annis showing (MINFILE 082LNW021).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR ASS RPT *32490
EMPR OF 1990-30
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap
Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; *637 (Occurrence 172)
GSC P 48-4; 74-1A, pp. 25-30; 86-1A, pp. 81-88; 89-1E, pp. 51-60
CJES Vol.21 (Oct.1984), pp. 1171-1193
Williams, D. (2011-10-28): Technical Report on the Shuswap Silver Property.

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