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File Created: 31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)
Last Edit:  05-Mar-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name RUBINCA MINE, BOULEAU LAKE, BEULAH, VODD Mining Division Nicola, Vernon
BCGS Map 082L022
Status Prospect NTS Map 082L05E
Latitude 050º 17' 26'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 39' 08'' Northing 5574302
Easting 311083
Commodities Agate, Gemstones Deposit Types Q03 : Agate
Q05 : Jasper
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Rubinca (Bouleau Lake) mine is located on the north side of Bouleau Lake, approximately 27 kilometres west of Vernon.

Regionally the area is underlain by volcanics, mudstone, siltstone, shale and fine clastic sedimentary rocks of the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch and(?) Nicola groups, which are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks. Volcanic rocks of the Eocene Penticton and Kamloops groups overlie the older units.

Locally, Kamloops and/or Penticton Group feldspar-porphyry andesite flows host jasper and agate (Personal Communication - R. Gay, Vernon).

In 1985, Chevron Canada Resources Ltd. prospected and soil sampled the area as the Vodd 1-8 claims. In 1988 and 1989, furthers program of rock, silt and soil sampling were completed on the area as the Beulah and Vodd claims. These programs were directed towards identifying gold-silver mineralization.

In 1995, the area to the north was prospected and sampled as the Annie Bell claims. This work identified at least six vertical seams, varying from 5 to 25 centimetres in width, of black to dark-brown opaque chalcedony and yellow-brown to milky agate along the Bouleau Forest road.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 14223, 18431, 19147, 24262
EMPR FIELDWORK 1982, pp. 89-92; 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 37, 5214G, 7216G
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 *72-73, pp. 22-23; 89-1E pp. 51-60

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