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File Created: 26-Apr-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  26-Apr-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name VIC 5, ELMOORE 5, BECA Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M002
Status Showing NTS Map 082M04E
Latitude 051º 02' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 42' 04'' Northing 5658548
Easting 310671
Commodities Lead, Copper, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by Devonian to Mississippian age Eagle Bay Formation. The rocks consist of greenstones, green- schists and chlorite schists trending northeast and dipping 35 to 45 degrees northwest.

The Vic 5 showing lies 600 metres northeast of the Elmoore showing. A 0.5 metre wide quartz vein occurs within greenschist along a 200 metre length trending 150 degrees and dipping 72 degrees northeast. Intermittent mineralization consisting of galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite occur within the quartz vein. A 0.5 metre sample assayed 3.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.23 per cent copper, 0.19 per cent lead and 0.08 per cent zinc.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1966-145,146
EMPR ASS RPT *904, 1114, *2650, 4504
EMPR GEM 1970-317
EMPR MAP *56
GSC MAP 48-1963; 5320G
GSC OF 637

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