MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW038

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	RITA, RETA	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L024
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L06W
Latitude	050º 15' 51''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 18' 34''	Northing	5570554
		Easting	335406
Commodities	Silver, Copper, Gold	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Harper Ranch

Capsule Geology

The Rita showing is located approximately 3 kilometres west of Vernon.

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. Occasional Paleozoic ultramafic rocks are associated with the Harper Ranch Group. These units are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks and patches of Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.

Samples assayed up to 2500 grams per tonne silver, 1.4 per cent copper and 3 grams per tonne gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1914, page 360). By 1914 two open cuts, 15 and 6 metres, had been completed. No other information is available on this showing.


Bibliography	EMPR AR *1914-360 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. 149 GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60