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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 Cu10
Name RAWHIDE (L.892), PHOENIX MINE Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E008
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 05' 26'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 35' 06'' Northing 5438732
Easting 384281
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver Deposit Types K01 : Cu skarn
K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Rawhide mine is 1000 metres southeast of the Phoenix pit (082ESE020), adjacent to the Monarch (082ESE027) claim to the west and Gold Drop (082ESE028), Snowshoe(082ESE026) and Curlew (082ESE024) claims to the north. The Rawhide claim (Lot 892) was staked by G.W. Rumberger and associates in 1891. It was restaked in 1893 by R. Denzler, D. McInnes and W. Gibbs. Incorporated in 1899, The Dominion Copper Company, Limited, operated the mine until 1908. In 1909, the New Dominion Copper Company, Limited reopened the mine and it operated until closing in 1918. From 1904 to 1916, production totalled 855,634 tonnes, yielding 1056 kilograms of gold, 6910 kilograms of silver and 8441 tonnes of copper. In 1928, Pacific Tidewater Mines, Ltd. optioned the claim.

Continental Consolidated Mines acquired the Rawhide in 1959 and from 1960 to 1962, The Granby Mining Company Limited mined on a royalty basis. Production during this time is included with the Phoenix. In 1963, Granby purchased the claim.

The Rawhide mine develops the continuation of the Gold Drop- Monarch ore body. The mine workings, underlying about three hectares on the western part of the Rawhide claim, consist of several large stopes and glory holes accessed by approximately 1400 metres of tunnelling on seven levels. The ore body, which attains a maximum thickness of 23 metres near the northwest boundary of the claim, rests on Brooklyn sharpstone conglomerate and reddish brown argillites and tuffs, dipping 13 to 25 degrees north and northeast. The ore is similar to the average types in the camp. Garnet and epidote are the most prominent gangue minerals and chalcopyrite the only valuable metallic mineral.

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

Battle Mountain (Canada) Inc. and Kettle River Resources Ltd. drilled 8 holes, totalling 764 metres on the Snowshoe Group in 1992.

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1894-756,map after 758; 1897-593; 1898-1123; 1899-771;
1901-1054,1062; 1904-211,222; 1905-179,183; 1906-158,161,250;
1907-109,110,114-115,215; 1908-116,248; 1909-133; 1910-118,122,
244; 1911-174,175,176,285; 1912-163,167; 1913-141,161,170,420;
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1960-65; 1961-65; 1962-69; 1963-68; 1965-170; 1966-194; 1967-227;
1968-231
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