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MINFILE No 082LSW082

File Created:	26-Mar-1987	by	Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	BALD	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L003
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L04E
Latitude	050º 03' 52''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 31' 44''	Northing	5548859
		Easting	319015
Commodities	Uranium	Deposit Types	B07 : Bog Fe, Mn, U, Cu, Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Overlap Assemblage, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Bald showing is located 20 kilometres north of Kelowna; about 2 kilometres west of Okanagan Lake.

In this area, Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks have been intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks of the informally named Terrace Creek batholith. Outliers of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie the older units.

A Recent organic bog, overlying Middle Jurassic quartz monzonite, hosts uranium mineralization. A 1.4 metre sample of homogeneous black organic muck with cedar wood fibre and roots assayed 0.035 per cent uranium, with 0.3 metre of 0.125 per cent uranium (Assessment Report 7973).

In 1978-79, Canadian Occidental Petroleum Ltd. carried out geological mapping, soil geochemistry, a radiometric survey and trenching.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT 7332, *7973 EMPR EXPL 1978-91; 1979-99 EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR MAP 37, 5207G, 7216G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30, 1990-32 p. 20 EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966) EMPR RGS 1976 GSC MEM 296 GSC OF 637, 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60