MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW031

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	RUBY GOLD (L. 2548)	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L023
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L03W
Latitude	050º 14' 59''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 24' 44''	Northing	5569181
		Easting	328029
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Harper Ranch

Capsule Geology

The Ruby Gold showing is located 10 kilometres west of Vernon, on the east side of Okanagan Lake.

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 mylonitic granite hosts gold mineralization. The 3 to 3.7 metre thick quartz vein carries pyrite and free gold and has been traced for about 60 metres. At the bottom of the 9.1-metre shaft the vein breaks up into stringers.

A shaft was driven on the claim in 1897. The Ruby Gold claim was Crown-granted in 1904.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1897-608; 1904-300 EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 33-36; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR MAP 7216G, 8512G 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. 149 GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60 GSC SUM RPT 1931A, p. 78