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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Sep-1993 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 082N4 Pb2
Name DONALD, ROUND HILL, ROUND HILL (L.201), WOOLSEY Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082N022
Status Prospect NTS Map 082N04E
Latitude 051º 14' 25'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 41' 41'' Northing 5676775
Easting 451504
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Copper, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Donald workings are located on the east slope of Fidelity Peak about 1 kilometre west of Bostock Creek, in Glacier National Park, 2.5 kilometres north-northwest of Flat Creek Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, about 54 kilometres west of Golden.

The original claim on the property was staked in the late 1880s and the first recorded work was performed in 1896 with sporadic development until 1929. Workings consist of a shaft, a short adit and several opencuts on the Round Hill claim (Lot 201, survey cancelled); and two other shallow shafts, numerous opencuts and a 274-metre long crosscut adit.

The property is underlain by a small Middle and/or Late Jurassic stock of porphyritic granodiorite which intrudes a series of Lower Paleozoic quartzites, mica schists, phyllites and slates that strike from northwest to north and dip steeply east or west. Hornblende granite and granite aplite dikes are also evident. Mineralization occurs in three major, and several minor quartz-siderite-ankerite veins which cut the granodiorite. Sulphides consisting of pyrite, pyrrhotite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite occur as irregular bodies (up to 3.3 metres) or stringers, in and alongside the quartz veins. Near some of the veins, wallrocks are extensively bleached and sericitized.

The most important vein is the westerly one and has been developed by two shafts, three or four opencuts and a short drift. The vein is 0.9 to 3 metres wide, strikes northerly and dips irregularly but generally steeply west.

In 1929, a quartz vein was exposed about 30 metres southeast of the most northerly shaft that explores the main vein. The vein is 7.3 metres wide and is mineralized with pyrrhotite, pyrite, galena, sphalerite and very minor chalcopyrite. A sample across the vein analysed 0.68 gram per tonne gold, 113.1 grams per tonne silver, 4 per cent lead and 1.5 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual 1929, page C333).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1889-279; 1896-539,560; 1898-1062; 1899-677; 1900-811; 1916- K193; 1917-F182; 1924-B204; 1928-C313; 1929-C333,C334
EMPR BC METAL MM00644
EMPR PF (82N General File - Canadian Superior Exploration geochemistry maps, 82N/4E,4W, 1976; *Report of Mine Examination by K.J. Christie, 1950; *Geological Report by H.C. Gunning, 1929; Results of assays (1949); Various memoranda; Plan and geolgoy of underground workings, 1929; Prospectus, The Woolsey Group of Mineral claims, The Glasair Mining Corporation Limited; Property description by H.L. Batten, 1928)
GSC MAP 237A; 4-1961; 43-1962
GSC OF 481
GSC P 62-32
GSC SUM RPT *1928 Part A, pp. 142,147,156,172-175
EMPR PFD 5131, 5132, 5133, 5134

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