MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082LSW016

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	PAYROLL	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L034
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L06W
Latitude	050º 19' 50''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 21' 57''	Northing	5578061
		Easting	331622
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Gold, Copper	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Payroll showing is located 10 kilometres northwest of Vernon, along the southwest bank of Newport Creek.

Sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group are in probable unconformable contact with Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group. Middle Jurassic granitic rocks intrude the Nicola and Harper Ranch groups. Outliers of Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks are present.

A banded quartz vein within Nicola argillaceous sediments hosts silver, lead, gold and copper mineralization. Mineralization is more pronounced on the hangingwall where the vein is more vuggy and comprises galena and minor pyrite and chalcopyrite. The east-west striking vein dips south at about 45 degrees, averages about 0.8 metre thick and is traceable on surface for about 400 metres. A sample of selected ore from the hangingwall assayed 1.37 grams per tonne gold, 1217 grams per tonne silver and 40.4 per cent lead (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929, p. 247).

The first published information on this showing was in 1929.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1929-247; 1930-208 EMPR ASS RPT 12313 EMPR BULL 1932 No.1, p. 79 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 46-7, 48-4A, 1059A, 1712A GSC MEM 296, p. 148 GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60 GSC SUM RPT 1931A, pp. 78, 85-86 EMPR PFD 823639