MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082ESE024

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	22-Jul-2020	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	082E2 Cu11
Name	CURLEW (L.893), PHOENIX MINE	Mining Division	Greenwood
		BCGS Map	082E008
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082E02E
Latitude	049º 05' 32''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	118º 34' 55''	Northing	5438913
		Easting	384508
Commodities	Copper, Gold, Silver	Deposit Types	K01 : Cu skarn K04 : Au skarn K03 : Fe skarn
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

The Curlew mine is 1100 metres east of the Phoenix pit (082ESE020), on a fractional claim of the same name, lying between the Rawhide (082ESE026) and Snowshoe (082ESE025) claims. The Curlew claim (Lot 899) was Crown granted to R. Denzler in 1898. In 1907, the claim was acquired by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company, Ltd. Production is included with the Phoenix.

The ore was developed by raises from the Curlew adit prior to 1912. The triangular Curlew segment of the ore body was 70 metres long and up to 55 metres wide, with an average thickness of 8 metres. The ore zone, consisting of disseminated chalcopyrite and some massive magnetite lenses in limy rocks, is underlain by sharpstone conglomerate that dips 35 degrees north onto the Snowshoe claim.

See Phoenix for additional details on development, geology and mineralization in the area.

Bibliography

EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G

EMPR AR 1894-map after 758; 1897-594; 1898-1195; 1906-160; 1907-114;

1910-122; 1913-164; 1915-191; 1918-208

EMPR BULL 101, p. 236

EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)

EMPR OF 1990-25

EMPR P 1986-2; 1989-3, pp. 41-43, 99

EMPR PF (See Phoenix 082ESE020)

EMPR PRELIM MAP 59

GSC MAP *16A; 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A

GSC MEM *21, pp. 71,72,83

GSC OF 481; 637; 1969

GSC P 45-20A; 67-42; 79-29

CG 1898 R. Denzler

CIM Transactions Vol. 59 (1956), pp. 384-394

Basque, Garnet (1992): Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of the Boundary

Country; Sunfire Publications Limited, pp. 82-115

Ball, M. (2017-01-26): Technical Report on the Greenwood Area Property

Cowley, P. (2017-06-02): Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment on

the Greenwood Precious Metals Project

EMPR PFD 752845, 812143, 812144, 812145, 812216, 801935, 21759, 21780