MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082N 068

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	23-Sep-1993	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI	082N4 Fsp1
Name	SILVER CREEK	Mining Division	Revelstoke
		BCGS Map	082N011
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082N04W
Latitude	051º 07' 31''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 54' 19''	Northing	5664146
		Easting	436649
Commodities	Fluorite	Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Kootenay

Capsule Geology

The Silver Creek occurrence area is underlain by Lower Paleozoic mica schists, quartzites and small bands of fine grained crystalline limestones cut by numerous dikes, sills and irregular bodies of Devonian gneissic granitic rocks.

In Woolsey (Silver) Creek, about 2.4 kilometres below its confluence with West Woolsey Creek, a highly altered, dark grey, fine-grained "lamprophyre dike" consists of biotite, quartz and calcite. Fluorite and quartz fill amygdules (Geological Survey of Canada Summary Report 1928 Part A, page 149).


Bibliography	EMPR OF 1992-16 EMPR PF (82N General File - Canadian Superior Exploration geochemistry maps, 82N/4E,4W, 1976) GSC MAP 4-1961; 43-1962 GSC OF 481 GSC P 62-32 GSC SUM RPT *1928 Part A, pp. 148,149 EMPR PFD 860906, 860907, 860908, 860909