MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW126

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

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		NMI
Name	SARAH, MORNING GLORY	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L023
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L03W
Latitude	050º 14' 35''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 24' 36''	Northing	5568434
		Easting	328164
Commodities	Gold	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Harper Ranch

Capsule Geology

The Sarah showing is located 11 kilometres west-southwest of Vernon, east of Okanagan Lake.

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 Kamloops Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.

A quartz vein in sedimentary(?) rocks of the Harper Ranch Group hosts gold mineralization. The narrow vein, about 0.3 metre thick, carries pyrite and spectacular but spotty free gold.

A 9-metre tunnel had been driven by 1897.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1897-608; 1901-1125; 1902-189 EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 33-36; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363 EMPR MAP 7216G, 8512G EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30 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 GSC SUM RPT 1931A, p. 77