British Columbia Ministry of Energy, Mines and Natural Gas and Responsible for Housing
News | The Premier Online | Ministries & Organizations | Job Opportunities | Main Index

MINFILE Home page  ARIS Home page  MINFILE Search page  Property File Search
Help Help
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

Summary Help Help

NMI
Name DENSY (L. 1051), EMPRESS, GOLDEN SUNBEAM, RAINBOW, EH-U, EHU Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L024
Status Showing NTS Map 082L06W
Latitude 050º 15' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 22' 26'' Northing 5569309
Easting 330769
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Densy showing is located 7 kilometres west of Vernon, north of Okanagan Lake. The British Empire showing (082LSW034) is 220 to 250 metres to the southeast.

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.

Quartz veins in Harper Ranch siltstones, quartzites and volcanic rocks host gold and copper mineralization.

An adit was driven on 3 narrow quartz veins with free gold and which assayed 33.25 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18983). The veins are hosted in iron-carbonate-sericite altered dirty quartzite and carry disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and native gold. One vein is up to 1.8 metres thick.

Four veins are exposed in outcrops above the adit and 13 to 75 metres southeast of the portal. The best sample in 1988 was from a vein 0.5 metre west of the main vein. This vein, up to 8 centi- metres wide, strikes 40 degrees and dips vertically. The sample assayed 0.71 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 18983).

The Densy claim was Crown-granted in 1898 and by 1899 a 40-metre adit and 4 shafts had been developed. The veins were sampled in 1988 by G. Benvenuto with disappointing results.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1195; *1899-746
EMPR ASS RPT *18983
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. 144
GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
GSC SUM RPT *1931A, p. 76

COPYRIGHT | DISCLAIMER | PRIVACY | ACCESSIBILITY