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File Created: 23-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  24-Oct-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name REDFERN Mining Division Cariboo
BCGS Map 093A009
Status Showing NTS Map 093A01W
Latitude 052º 00' 47'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 23' 49'' Northing 5765689
Easting 678634
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Redfern occurrence is located on the northern slopes of Spanish Creek, approximately 7 kilometres south-southwest of Spanish Lake.

The area is underlain by quartz-mica schists, calc-silicate schists, quartz biotite schists, quartzites and minor marbles of the Proterozoic-Paleozoic Snowshoe Group.

Locally, limonite-stained white quartz veins, up to 1.4 metres wide, carrying rare galena-pyrite mineralization in the form of sporadic blebs and disseminations are hosted in a highly altered calcareous quartzite or phyllite, also carrying finely disseminated pyrite and minor galena.

Between 1987 and 1990, D.W. Ridley conducted various programs of geochemical sampling, prospecting, geological mapping, trenching and a geophysical survey on the property. In 1990, a 2.0 metre rock chip sample across the vein and wall rock returned values of 13,874 parts per million lead, 1,077 parts per million zinc and 50.2 parts per million silver (Assessment Report 21013).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 18017, *21013

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