MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082ESE027

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	MONARCH (L.701), PHOENIX MINE	Mining Division	Greenwood
		BCGS Map	082E008
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082E02E
Latitude	049º 05' 22''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	118º 35' 29''	Northing	5438619
		Easting	383812
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 Monarch mine is 800 metres southeast of the Phoenix pit (082ESE020), adjacent to the Aetna (082ESE022), Rawhide (082ESE026) and Gold Drop (082ESE028) claims to the west, east and north, respectively. The Monarch claim (Lot 701) was Crown granted to R. Humphrey in 1897. In 1904, the claim was acquired by the Granby Consolidated Mining, Smelting & Power Company, Ltd. Production is included with the Phoenix.

The original underground workings at the Monarch mine, in the northwest part of the Monarch claim, were accessed from drifts at the base of an inclined two compartment shaft 30 metres deep. In 1909 an important ore body was delineated by drilling in the area east of the shaft. This was subsequently developed from a tunnel connecting the old workings with the shaft. A raise from the Monarch drift at the Gold Drop mine joined the main tunnel at the Monarch mine allowing the ore to be conveyed to the Curlew portal.

In the vicinity of the shaft a shallow opencut exposed a mineralized zone characterized by narrow bands of magnetite together with chalcopyrite and pyrite and veinlets of sulphides accompanied by specularite. The gangue in this association consists mostly of epidote and coarsely crystalline grey calcite. The magnetite is often interbanded with calcite and contains calcite inclusions, the banding ranging in thickness from 0.5 to 1 metre. Along the west side of the opencut the ore is broken and the sulphides are extensively oxidized. The same conditions prevailed in the old underground workings.

The main ore body east of the shaft dips slightly to the southeast and is roughly circular in plan with a diametre of about 45 metres and an average thickness of 9 metres. The ore is largely magnetite and carries 1.17 per cent copper, 1 gram per tonne gold and 13.7 grams per tonne silver (GSC Memoir 21, page 84).

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; 1897-576,591,594; 1898-1123;

1902-174; 1905-176; 1910-22; 1914-399; 1915-191; 1918-208

EMPR ASS RPT 22112

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. 11,15,63,72,83-84

GSC OF 481; 637; 1969

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

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

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the Greenwood Precious Metals Project

EMPR PFD 1105, 905211, 752845, 750352, 750451, 907627, 801927, 801935, 801970, 801971, 21759