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MINFILE No 092HSE244

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File Created:	31-Mar-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	31-Mar-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	MASCOT TAILINGS, HEDLEY MASCOT TAILINGS, SUMAC VENTURES, CANDORADO	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H040
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	092H08E
Latitude	049º 21' 54''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 04' 01''	Northing	5472170
		Easting	712945
Commodities	Gold, Silver	Deposit Types	T01 : Tailings
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Mascot Tailings prospect is located on Lots 1795 (3186s) and 1796, along the east and west banks of Hedley Creek, 1.35 to 2.1 kilometres northeast of the creek's confluence with the Similkameen River, just northeast of the town of Hedley.

This deposit consists of two old tailings dumps derived from the Mascot gold mine (092HSE036), which was operated by Hedley Mascot Gold Mines Ltd. between 1936 and 1949. The larger dump, on Lot 1795, is 290 metres long and up to 240 metres wide, while the second dump, across the creek, on Lot 1796 to the north, is 320 metres long and up to 130 metres wide. Total reserves are estimated at 621,000 tonnes grading 1.75 grams per tonne gold (Canadian Mines Handbook 1989-90, page 430).

The south dump has a gross mineral inventory of 335,000 tonnes, with 176,000 tonnes grading 1.20 grams per tonne gold. The north dump has reserves of 186,000 tonnes grading 1.35 grams per tonne gold (B.H. MacLean, 1991, page 2).

Sumac Ventures Inc. drilled 47 auger and percussion holes totalling 340 metres in 1988. The company proposed to recover gold by heap leaching the tailings. The two tailings dumps were drilled in 1990 and 1991 by Candorado Mines Ltd., operator of the Hedley Tailings deposit (092HSE144), 1.5 kilometres to the south. The company plans to selectively mine the outer perimeter of the south dump and all of the north dump.

In 1995, production from the tailings totalled 93 kilograms of gold and 10 kilograms of silver from 42640 tonnes processed.

Bibliography

EMPR EXPL 1988, pp. A22,A44; 1990, p. 60; 1995-10; 1996-A14

EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80

EMPR INF CIRC 1989-1, Tables 1, 2; 1991-1, p. 63; 1996-1, p. 10; 1997-1, p. 13; 1998-1, p. 15

EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6

EMPR P 1989-3, pp. 19-35

GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 889A; 41-1989

GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80

CMH *1988-89, p. 426; *1989-90, p. 430

GCNL #76, 1989

*MacLean, B.H. (1991): Correspondence to E.Sader regarding tailings piles on Lots 1796 and 3186; Submission to Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Resource Management Branch (formerly Inspections and Engineering Branch)

*Seraphim, R.H., (1988): Proposal Regarding Heap Leach Tailings on Lots 3186s and 1796, Hedley, B.C. for Sumac Ventures Inc., 24K Mining Inc.; Submission to Ministry of Energy, Mines and Petroleum Resources, Resource Management Branch

EMPR PFD 902938, 903368, 903485, 903884, 9009, 9010, 826716, 600309