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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  10-May-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name SILVER CREEK Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L055
Status Showing NTS Map 082L11E
Latitude 050º 35' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 01' 52'' Northing 5606202
Easting 356231
Commodities Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Silver Creek showing is located from GSC Open File 637 (Occurrence 218) and is described as a silver occurrence in quartz veins (GSC Memoir 296, page 150). Geology maps show the area to be underlain by the Proterozoic and/or Paleozoic Shuswap assemblage consisting of quartzofeldspathic gneiss, biotite quartz schist, amphibolite, quartzite, marble, granite, granodiorite, pegmatite and granodioritic to tonalitic gneiss.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
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 218)
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
EMPR PFD 681568

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