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File Created: 21-Nov-1988 by Gary V. White (GVW)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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Name FINTRY POINT, SHORTS POINT, SHORT CREEK, EDWARD (L.5046), PERSEVERANCE (L.5047), L. 5049, SCOTTEY, GOLDEN HORSESHOE, LUMBER JACK Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L013
Status Showing NTS Map 082L04E
Latitude 050º 08' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 34' 14'' Northing 5557361
Easting 316322
Commodities Wollastonite, Limestone, Marble, Building Stone Deposit Types K09 : Wollastonite skarn
R09 : Limestone
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Fintry Point showing is located 26 kilometres west-southwest of Vernon, on the steep north slopes of Shorts Creek valley.

Middle Jurassic granitic rocks intrude sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group. Eocene Penticton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks cover the older units. The Harper Ranch hosts wollastonite and limestone mineralization.

Lenses, clusters and veinlets of wollastonite occur in a 800 by 500 by 50 metre bed of grey marble, forming up to 35 per cent of the rock, averaging about 25 per cent. The wollastonite zone, within a grey to white marble unit, is parallel to and about 150 metres west of the contact of a granodiorite intrusion. Quartz, garnet, and minor diopside and prehnite are also reported. The wollastonite forms tough, massive aggregates of radial fibres, with fibre lengths up to 12 centimetres, averaging 2 to 3 centimetres. The 71 per cent wollastonite concentrate is too low grade for most industrial use, due to the presence of significant quartz content. In 1989, a 50 kilogram sample was submitted to CANMET for processing and analysis. The results are as follows:

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SiO2 52.0 %

Al2O3 0.93%

Fe2O3 0.57%

CaCO3 16.4 %

MgO 1.01%

L.O.I. 6.57%

Brightness 73.58%

Lightness 88.16%

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White to grey to black, fine to medium-grained crystalline limestone outcrops immediately west of the skarn contact zone and west of the wollastonite zone. Remnant beds strike north and dip steeply east or west between 60 and 90 degrees. Interbedded black argillite and fine-grained sandstone with minor pockets of conglomerate are exposed at lower elevations. Several grab samples from a 30 to 100 metre wide zone of white, medium to fine-grained limestone adjacent to the granodiorite, averaged 97 per cent CaCO3, 1.8 per cent CaSiO3, 0.7 per cent muscovite and 0.5 per cent SiO2 (Hallisey, 1963).

Three tunnels were driven on the Scottey Group of mineral claims by 1939 which included the Golden Horseshoe, Perservance, Ivanhoe and Lumberjack claims.

A 21-metre tunnel was driven on one of several quartz veins in the vicinity. The veins are up to 1.2 metres in width. Assays of the quartz show traces of gold and silver (Starr, Property File). Another tunnel was driven about 4.5 metres crosscutting a quartz body and another 6-metre tunnel was driven on a limestone-granite contact.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 37, 5207G, 7216G
EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30, *1991-17, pp. 28-31, 1992-18
EMPR P *1989-1, p. 493
EMPR PF (*Starr, C.C. (1939): Report on the Scottey Group of Mining Claims, 2 p.; Sketch of claims showing claims and tunnel locations; in 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637, 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
Hallisey, R.S., (1963): *Wollastonite, Its Occurrence, Production Uses, University of British Columbia Unpublished Bachelor of Applied Science Thesis
EMPR PFD 4552

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