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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Jun-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 082N7 Pb1
Name QUEBEC, FRENCHMAN CREEK, QUEBEC (L.511) Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082N038
Status Prospect NTS Map 082N07E
Latitude 051º 18' 44'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 31' 04'' Northing 5684657
Easting 533610
Commodities Lead, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Quebec showings are on Frenchman Creek, 10 kilometres southwest of Field, in Yoho National Park. The occurrence is underlain by red weathering, highly cleaved calcareous slates and slates with thin limestone interbeds, of the Middle Cambrian Chancellor Group.

Quartz-calcite veinlets cut the slates and are mineralized with galena, tetrahedrite, azurite, malachite, pyrite and arsenopyrite.

The showings were staked as the Quebec claim (Lot 511) which was Crown-granted in 1902. The Pioneer Mining Company held the property in 1885, installed a 10-stamp mill and a tramway about 3.2 kilometres long with wooden rails. Approximately 18 tonnes of ore had been transported before a forest fire destroyed the tramway in June 1887. The workings included a lower adit about 61 metres long with an 18-metre shaft at the end, and an upper adit 53 metres long.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1899-594; 1902-303
EMPR BULL 28, p. 53
EMPR PF (82N General File - Prospector's map, 1937)
GSC MAP 1496A
GSC MEM *55, pp. 222-224
GSC OF 481
GSC SUM RPT 1911, p. 185
ASPG Guidebook, 4th Annual Field Conference (Aug. 1954)
EMPR PFD 650066

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