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File Created: 31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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NMI
Name KEYSTONE-3, KEYSTONE Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L034
Status Showing NTS Map 082L06W
Latitude 050º 18' 48'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 17' 41'' Northing 5575988
Easting 336623
Commodities Lead Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Keystone-3 showing is located 6 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. Patches of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.

A quartz vein within argillaceous rocks of the Nicola Group hosts lead mineralization. The vein is up to 0.9 metre thick and carries minor pyrite and galena. The vein strikes 035 degrees and dips 30 degrees east.

By 1931, an open cut and a short inclined shaft had been completed.

Bibliography
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. 146
GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
GSC SUM RPT *1931A, pp. 77, 83

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