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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name SILVER KING NO. 2 (L.4103) Mining Division Kamloops, Nicola
BCGS Map 092I039
Status Showing NTS Map 092I08W
Latitude 050º 20' 16'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 23' 17'' Northing 5579450
Easting 685864
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The historic King William camp is located on Mineral Hill within a north trending belt of Upper Triassic intermediate volcanics, volcaniclastics and sediments belonging to the Nicola Group. These greenstones consist of massive, chlorite-epidote altered andesite and basalt, augite porphyry, andesitic flow breccia and tuff, minor interbedded argillite, conglomerate and limestone. Attitudes of tuff horizons and sedimentary bedding suggest that a north plunging axis of a syncline passes through Mineral Hill. Both west and north- east of Stump Lake, the Nicola Group volcanics are intruded by Lower Jurassic granitic batholiths; scattered granodiorite outcrops have been mapped in the vicinity of the camp. Secondary to the north- northeast trending Quilchena and Stump Lake regional faults are numerous smaller faults which form a complex fracture pattern and appear to control alteration and mineralization. Andesitic rocks are bleached, pervasively silicified, pyritic and brecciated. Mineral- ization occurs in numerous quartz, and less commonly calcite veins which strike generally to the north and dip steeply eastward.

The Silver King showing consists of a collapsed shaft, trenches and pits which expose a quartz vein system hosted by massive altered andesite. The shaft intersects narrow quartz stringers (5 centimetres wide) carrying galena, sphalerite and pyrite. Arsenopyrite was encountered in more recent trenches. The orientation of the vein zone strikes from 360 to 020 degrees and the dips vary from 70 degrees east to 65 degrees west. Grab samples assay up to 4.45 grams per tonne gold, 248.87 grams per tonne silver, 14 per cent lead, 0.23 per cent zinc and 0.01 per cent copper (Assessment Report 5152).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1933-178; 1936-D18
EMPR ASS RPT *5152, 5565, 13152
EMPR BULL 10, p. 107; 20, Part III, p. 25
EMPR EXPL 1984-210; 1989-119-134
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 96,97
EMPR GEM 1974-148; 1975-E87
GSC MAP 886A; 887A
GSC MEM *249, p. 54
GSC OF *980
GSC SUM RPT 1919 Part B
Gourlay, A.W. (2013-02-01): Independent Geological Report on the Stump Lake Au-Ag Property
Gourlay, A.W. (2013-09-13): Independent Geological Report on the Mineral Hill Property

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