69434 082FNW213 Slocan HOMESTAKE (L.15283), HAMILTON, HAZELTON, LITTLE CHIEF 082F083 082F14W Past Producer 49° 49' 12'' 117° 26' 10'' 49.820000 -117.436111 11 5518500 468700 Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Omineca Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au The Homestake claim (Lot 15283) is centred on Memphis Creek 1.5 kilometres east of the Slocan highway, 6.5 kilometres north of Slocan. The main workings, on the north side of the creek at the elevation of 1000 metres, are reached by a short access road from the highway. The property was previously known as the Hamilton. This claim may have also be covered by the Joyce (082FNW214). The Homestake deposit outcrops where the mountain slope breaks over into Memphis creek valley. It has been developed, between 1968 and 1970, by two short adits and several raises. Significant gold and silver values are reportedly associated with mainly pyrite mineralization, accompanied by minor tetrahedrite, arsenopyrite, native silver and possibly argentite. These minerals are found in a narrow quartz vein which strikes northwesterly and dips steeply to the northeast. The principal structure hosting the vein is a shear zone about 3 metres wide that cuts a coarse porphyritic phase of the Nelson granitic batholith. At the Hamilton, intermittent production from 1903 to 1915, totalled 33 tonnes of ore, yielding 115,299 grams of silver, 93 grams of gold and 1921 kilograms of lead. Production as the Homestake from 1968 to 1971 totalled 330 tonnes, yielding 861,491 grams of silver, 7370 grams of gold, 440 kilograms of lead and 503 kilograms of zinc. EMPR AR 1899-689; 1903-139,242; 1904-204; 1909-115; 1912-150; 1915-445; 1948-148; 1950-150; 1957-57; *1968-A54,249-250; 1969-A55; 1970-A55; 1971-A55 EMPR BC METAL MM001218 (Hamilton); MM01236 (Homestake) EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48 EMPR GEM 1969-325,429; 1970-449-450,482; 1971-29,411 EMPR INDEX 3-199 EMPR OF 1988-11 EMPR P 1989-5 GSC MAP 272A; 1091A GSC MEM 173; *184, p. 175; 308, pp. 133,148 EMPR PFD 2495, 822976