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

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Name BEVERLEY, BEVERLEY NO.2, PEGGY, MARIE, EDITH Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L034
Status Showing NTS Map 082L06W
Latitude 050º 18' 45'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 18' 24'' Northing 5575921
Easting 335770
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Beverley showing is located 6 kilometres north-northwest of Vernon, between Swan and Okanagan lakes.

In this area, west of the Okanagan Valley fault zone, volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group are unconformably overlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. These units are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks. Patches of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.

A network of quartz veins within volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Nicola host gold, lead, silver and copper mineralization. The generally concordant veins carry pyrite, galena, and occasional chalcopyrite and tetrahedrite. The veins are persistent in width, range from 0.3 to 9 metres thick, and are traceable for 250 metres in length. The values are generally low, but values up to 27 grams per tonne gold, 1100 grams per tonne silver and 31 per cent lead have been reported (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1934, page D32).

By 1934, exploration included trenches, open cuts and shallow shafts.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1934-D32
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. 141
GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60

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