MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW030

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	ROYAL AND PEERLESS, ROYAL, PEERLESS	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L034
Status	Prospect	NTS Map	082L06W
Latitude	050º 18' 06''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 17' 20''	Northing	5574678
		Easting	336999
Commodities	Silver, Zinc, Lead	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Royal and Peerless showings are located 4 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 informally named the Terrace Creek batholith. Patches of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.

A quartz vein in Nicola volcanic rocks hosts silver, zinc and lead mineralization. The vein carries disseminations of sphalerite and galena.

In 1942 and 1952, 2 shipments totalling 5 tonnes (4 from the Royal and 1 from the Peerless) produced 2,829 grams of silver, 89 kilograms of lead and 278 kilograms of zinc.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1942-26; 1952-41 EMPR ASS RPT 4960 EMPR BC METAL MM00437, MM00438 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR INDEX 3-208, 211 EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30 EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966) EMPR RGS 1976 GSC MEM 296 GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60