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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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Name NORTH STAR (NORTH SHOWING), ACE, ENERGITE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M031
Status Showing NTS Map 082M05W
Latitude 051º 21' 15'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 59' 44'' Northing 5693471
Easting 291428
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by Devonian to Permian age Fennell Formation rocks consisting of cherts and phyllites in the west and Mississippian age part of the Eagle Bay Formation rocks consisting of phyllites, siltstones and sandstones in the east. A 150 degree striking and steeply dipping fault, separating the two formations, has sheared and silicified the metasediments. The rocks generally strike 160 to 170 degrees and dip 50 to 90 degrees to the west, and in places, display rusty carbonate alteration. To the southeast is a Mississippian limestone unit.

Mineralization consists of sphalerite and galena with minor pyrite and chalcopyrite in quartz veins within highly sheared phyllite pyritic quartzite and ferruginous limestone. The quartz veins are a few centimetres to a few metres wide and generally strike north- northwest with near vertical dips.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1927-188,190; *1935-D7,8; *1936-D36,38,39; 1939-93
EMPR ASS RPT 5039, 5363, 13766
EMPR EXPL 1975-57; 1976-63; 1978-E108; 1980-140; 1985-C105
EMPR FIELDWORK 1978, pp. 31-37; 1979, pp. 28-36; 1984, pp. 67-76
EMPR GEM 1974-97
EMPR MAP 53; 56
EMPR OF 2000-7
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 2000-47 by Adam Travis)
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 637
Dickie, G.J., Preto, V.A. and Schiarizza, P. (in preparation 1986):
*Mineral Deposits of the Adams Plateau-Clearwater Area
Preto, V.A. and Schiarizza, P. (1985): Geology and Mineral Deposits
of the Adams Plateau-Clearwater Region in GSA Cordilleran Section
Meeting May 1985, pp. 16-1 to 16-11

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