MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW011

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	MAY, BOP	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L044
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L06W
Latitude	050º 25' 52''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 18' 22''	Northing	5589107
		Easting	336219
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Lead	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay

Capsule Geology

The May showing is located 19 kilometres north-northwest of Vernon, east of Round Lake.

In this area, sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group are in fault contact to the north with Cambrian-Ordovician volcanic (Tsalkom Formation) and sedimentary (Sicamous Formation) rocks, and in probable unconformable contact with Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group to the south. Cretaceous granodiorite plugs intrude the Nicola, Sicamous and Tsalkom rocks. Outliers of Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks are present in the area.

Sicamous argillaceous rocks host a quartz vein carrying "values in gold, silver and lead" (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1931A).

By 1899, exploration included a 2 metre shaft and an 8 metre tunnel.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1899-747 EMPR ASS RPT 17371 EMPR EXPL 1988-C56 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30 EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966) EMPR RGS 1976 GSC MAP 1059A, 1712A GSC MEM 296, p. 146 GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60 GSC SUM RPT *1931A, p. 77