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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-May-2000 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name RAMAGE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I099
Status Showing NTS Map 092I16E
Latitude 050º 59' 36'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 13' 04'' Northing 5652768
Easting 695240
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Ramage showings comprise quartz veins ranging from 0.6 up to 9 metres in width sparsely mineralized with galena, chalcopyrite, pyrite and sphalerite. The veins are hosted in Triassic and/or Jurassic granite which intrudes schist of the Carboniferous to Triassic Nicola and/or Harper Ranch groups.

The lowest exposures are located on the east side of the North Thompson River about 198 metres above the level of the valley bottom, 36 kilometres north of the community of Kamloops.

Some underground exploratory had been completed in the past. An incline at 45 degrees was driven 4.5 metres in a southeast direction on the lowest exposure of a vein which strikes 345 degrees and dips steeply southwest. About 15 metres south of here and at the same elevation, an adit was driven a metre on an irregular mass of quartz that appears to be a branch from the other body. The two vein exposures extend back up a cliff and 24 metres higher a cut was made on a vein above the workings. In the now-sloughed cut, the vein carries grains of malachite and cerussite.

Sixty-one metres further southeast along strike, a vein 2.4 metres wide is exposed by a cut. Another cut exposes a parallel vein 20 metres northeast from this point, where it is from 0.6 to 1.2 metres wide.

Bibliography
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC MEM *249, pp. 78,79
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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