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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name CLAIRDON, HARP, CAMPBELL CREEK Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092I059
Status Prospect NTS Map 092I09E
Latitude 050º 34' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 13' 23'' Northing 5606216
Easting 696618
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Clairdon showing is located on the north western slope of Campbell Creek, approximately 2.5 kilometres north of Walker Lake.

The area is located near the contact of Upper Triassic Nicola Group sediments to the west from Jurassic granitic rocks of the Wild Horse batholith to the east. The sediments consist of a sequence of interbedded, dark green schistose to massive argillites.

The showings consist of quartz veins and stringers in shear zones in the sediments near the contact with the granite intrusion and are mineralized with small amounts of pyrite and chalcopyrite. Gouge along the shear zone is usually crushed country rock and graphite.

The lowest working consists of a shallow shaft and an adit 6 metres below driven westerly towards it. At the shaft the shear zone is 1.2 metres wide, striking 030 degrees and dipping 50 degrees northwest. At the face of the adit a drift was run on another shear zone. Another adit is 91 metres higher in elevation and located 259 metres at 230 degrees. This adit was driven 73 metres northwest. A third adit is 30 metres northwest of the second and 15 metres higher. It starts as an opencut 15 metres long and continues as an adit to the bottom of an old shaft. The adit has been driven 20 metres beyond the bottom of the shaft. Surface workings consist of numerous opencuts.

In 1935, the property was operated by Clairdon Mines Ltd. and 1 tonne of ore was shipped yielding 342 grams silver and 62 grams gold (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1935). In 1972, an induced polarization survey (22.2 kilometres), soil sampling (460) and geological mapping were conducted on the Harp claim group on behalf of Sarafand Development Ltd. Two grab samples with malachite stain were taken from an adit dump and analysed up to 5 grams per tonne gold and 1 per cent copper (Property File: Amendolagine, 1972). In 1993, the area immediately northwest of the showing was explored by Klondike Industries as the Dot 1-3 claims.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1939-A35
EMPR ASS RPT 4442, *4443, 22988
EMPR BC METAL MM00384
EMPR GEM 1973-193,194
EMPR PF (*Amendolagine, E. (1972): Property Report for Sarafand Developments Ltd.)
GSC MEM *249, p. 72
GSC OF 165; 980; 2490
GSC MAP 886A; 887A; 9-1963; 1394A; 42-1989
GSC P 44-20; 82-1A, pp. 293-297; 85-1A, pp. 349-358

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