British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Responsible for Housing
News | The Premier Online | Ministries & Organizations | Job Opportunities | Main Index

MINFILE Home page  ARIS Home page  MINFILE Search page  Property File Search
Help Help
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

Summary Help Help

NMI
Name VAL, VADLER, VIDLER, ARKOSE, VIDLER-ARKOSE Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L016
Status Showing NTS Map 082L02W
Latitude 050º 11' 55'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 53' 34'' Northing 5562428
Easting 364914
Commodities Uranium, Zinc Deposit Types D04 : Basal U
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Val deposit is located 8 kilometres southeast of Lumby and 27 kilometres southeast of Vernon.

The property was staked as the Val Claims in 1968 by Silver Standard Mines. They carried out detailed mapping, radiometric surveys and drilled 3 percussion holes totalling 274 metres. The claims were staked as the Arkose and Vidler claims in 1976. In 1976, Chatham Resources carried out soil sampling, scintillometer and induced polarization surveys and drilling. In 1977, 181 metres of rotary drilling was done by Kerr Addison Mines Ltd. In 1978, the property was optioned to Charter Oil Co. Ltd. who assigned their interest to Banqwest Resources Ltd. Soil sampling, a spectrometer survey, silt and water sampling and geological mapping were completed.

The area is underlain by Eocene volcanics and sediments of the Kamloops Group. Rocks include rhyolites, tuffs, fragmentals, sand- stones and conglomerates. Radioactivity is associated with sediments along a north trending valley for about 2.5 kilometres.

Uranium is found in a sequence of sandstone, conglomerate and tuffaceous arkose of Eocene age.

Drilling in the north part of the zone failed to intersect significant radioactivity. However, a nearby soil geochemical sample assayed 31 parts per million uranium. At the south end of the zone, radioactivity up to 21,000 counts per second registered on a TV-1A scintillometer (background is 55 counts per second) (Assessment Report 7276). Small amounts of sphalerite were intersected in the drillholes on the Arkose claims. Mapping and drilling in 1977 suggested that radioactivity was due to a high content of uranium in primary resistate minerals in the rhyolites and tuffs.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1968-222
EMPR ASS RPT *6341, 6376, 6396, 6560, *7276
EMPR EXPL 1976-53; 1977-74; 1978-88
EMPR MAP 22
EMPR OF *1990-32
EMPR PF (082LSE General - Report on the Clier Claims and Report on the Tai claims, J. Lund, 1978)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 551; 637(#309)
GCNL #122,#138, 1976

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY