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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-Aug-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name MARIE Mining Division Golden
BCGS Map 082N027
Status Showing NTS Map 082N02E
Latitude 051º 14' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 43' 52'' Northing 5675807
Easting 518773
Commodities Lead, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Marie showing is situated between the Kicking Horse and Columbia rivers, about 10 kilometres east-southeast of Golden.

Several quartz stringers mineralized with galena have been exposed by an opencut. Some of the sorted ore assayed 66 per cent lead and 82.2 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1920, page N109). Hostrocks are inferred from Geological Survey of Canada Map 1501A which indicate Upper Cambrian to Middle Ordovician McKay Group slate, shale and limestone.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1920-N109
GSC MAP 295A; 1501A
GSC OF 481

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