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File Created: 08-Jun-1998 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  27-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name LADYBUG, LADY BUG, BLACKJACK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M015
Status Showing NTS Map 082M03E
Latitude 051º 06' 10'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 05' 48'' Northing 5663345
Easting 353210
Commodities Zinc, Silver, Lead, Copper Deposit Types S01 : Broken Hill-type Pb-Zn-Ag+/-Cu
K02 : Pb-Zn skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Ladybug showing is exposed over 50 metres along an old logging road on Mount Fowler, north of Anglemont. The occurrence was originally discovered by N. Stephanishin and D. Pipe under a 1996 Prospectors Assistance Program grant. In 1998, Leo Lindinger, in partnership with Mr. Pipe, further explored the Ladybug under a 1998 Prospectors Assistance Program grant. Further discoveries were made on the property at this time.

The property is underlain by Paleozoic metasediments of the Eagle Bay Formation and Devonian Mount Fowler granodiorite orthogneiss. Galena, sphalerite, magnetite and rare pyrite are hosted by greenish, epidote-tremolite(?), locally calcareous rock. Lamintated, pale green quartz-epidote rock is also common and may be altered chert or quartzite. The mineralization has the appearance of stratabound, Shuswap type Pb-Zn mineralization, however, the presence of calc-silicate minerals and nearby Tertiary felsic dikes suggests that it may have formed through metasomatic processes.

Cross Lake Minerals Ltd. optioned the property in December 1998. Channel sampling by Jim Millar-Tait returned up to 9 metres of 1.9 per cent zinc, 78.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.19 per cent copper and 1.12 per cent lead, including 0.5 metre of 7.42 per cent zinc, 550.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.92 per cent copper and 6.65 per cent lead (Cross Lake Minerals Ltd. Press Release, December 10, 1998). The company completed IP, magnetic and soil surveys in 1999. Five holes (approximately 300 metres) were drilled in 1999.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 1998-64
EM INF CIRC 2000-1, p. 19
EMPR OF 1996-20; 2000-22
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 1995-9 by David Pipe; Prospectors Report 1998-40 by Leo
Lindinger; Prospectors Report 2000-41 by Leo Lindinger)
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 290; 637
GSC P 75-1A
GCNL #239 (Dec.14), 1998
PERS COMM Mike Cathro, June 1998
PR REL Cross Lake Minerals Ltd., Dec. 10, 1998
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