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File Created: 28-Oct-1986 by Mary McLean (MM)
Last Edit:  03-Dec-2024 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI
Name OLYMPIC (HILLSIDE), HILLSIDE 6 (L.6279) Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J087
Status Prospect NTS Map 092J15E
Latitude 050º 53' 30'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 43' 25'' Northing 5637814
Easting 519439
Commodities Antimony, Gold Deposit Types I09 : Stibnite veins and disseminations
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River, Cadwallader
Capsule Geology

The OLYMPIC (HILLSIDE) prospect is the easternmost prospect on the Olympic property on the south side of Carpenter Lake, situated approximately 9 kilometres northeast of Gold Bridge, B.C.

The Olympic (Hillside) No. 1 Adit Zone on the Olympic property follows a steeply dipping, southeast trending, brecciated shear zone at the faulted contact between Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group) andesitic and silicic tuffs and crystalline carbonates and diorite of the Cretaceous to Tertiary Bendor pluton. Contact metamorphism has hornfelsed the sediments. Two parallel, narrow quartz-carbonate veins follow the shear and are heavily mineralized with large stibnite crystals and finely disseminated arsenopyrite and pyrrhotite. Samples assays 0.75 gram gold per tonne; a nearby trench ran 0.65 gram per tonne gold over 15 centimetres (Assessment Report 14344).

The Kelvin and Olympic areas saw initial development in the mid 1930s and again in the mid 1940s with underground drifting plus some drilling on the Kelvin prospect. The No.1 Adit Zone was drifted into the hillside for 41 metes in the mid 1930s and an open cut called the Elizabeth trench was also excavated.

In 1980, Noranda Mines Ltd. undertook geological mapping, soil geochemical sampling and magnetometer surveying in the area. A mapping, sampling and geological report on the Kelvin and Olympic prospects, including Hillside, was completed by B. Price in 1982 (Assessment Report 11139). Big I Developments Ltd. conducted programs of geological mapping, grid soil geochemical sampling in the area in 1985, as well as extending southward with prospecting up Girl Creek (south of the Kelvin prospect) and up Howe (Marquis) Creek south of the Olympic prospect.

Avino Mines and Resources Ltd. acquired the Minto property to the north of Carpenter Lake and the Olympic property south of the lake in 1987, and conducted programs of soil sampling, airborne VLF-EM and magnetometer survey, trenching and diamond drilling through to 2005 (Assessment Reports 16964, 17790, 18433, 27443, 28340).

In 2022 and 2023, Endurance Gold Corp. conducted prospecting and geochemical orientation and sampling surveys on their Olympic property and on the Sanchez property to the east, as part of their Reliance Gold project. These surveys established parallel northwest trending targets across the Kelvin, Minto-Olympic and Enigma-Dauntless areas (Assessment Report 41676).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1934-F31; 1935-F56; 1945-A88; 1946-A114
EMPR ASS RPT 8293, 8954, *11139, 12607, *14344, 16964, 18433, 41676
EMPR BULL 100
EMPR EXPL 1978-E180; 1979-187
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987,
pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR GEOFILE 1999-01
EMPR GEOLOGY 1975-G58
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR PFD 885437
GSC MAP 431A
GSC MEM 130; 213
GSC OF 482
GSC P 43-15; 73-17; 77-2 (GSC Sample 76-50)
CJES 1987, Vol. 24, pp. 2279-2291
GCNL #6,#34,#53, 1986
http://endurancegold.com/projects/reliance-gold-project-b.c/

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