MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW124

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