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MINFILE No 082LSW146

File Created:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)
Last Edit:	17-May-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	MISSION HILL WEST, MISSION HILL	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L024
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082L03W
Latitude	050º 12' 14''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 19' 28''	Northing	5563886
		Easting	334128
Commodities	Silver, Lead, Gold	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Harper Ranch

Capsule Geology

The Mission Hill West showing is located 8 kilometres south- southwest of Vernon, west of Kalamalka 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 of the informally named Terrace Creek batholith. Granitic Coryell rocks of Eocene age intrude the Paleozoic and Mesozoic rocks. Patches of Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks overlie the older rocks.

A quartz vein in quartz diorite hosts silver, lead and gold mineralization. A 2-metre thick quartz vein carries sparse disseminations of pyrite and galena. The vein strikes at 125 degrees azimuth and dips 60 degrees to the northeast.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1928-221 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, p. 147 GSC OF 736, 2167 GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60 GSC SUM RPT 1931A, p. 77, 84