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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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Name RATHMULLEN, MAPLE LEAF (L.1502), SUMMIT CAMP Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E018
Status Showing NTS Map 082E02E
Latitude 049º 08' 11'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 30' 23'' Northing 5443710
Easting 390122
Commodities Copper, Silver, Gold, Zinc Deposit Types I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Rathmullen Group, which includes the Maple Leaf (Lot 1502) claim, is located northwest of Thimble Mountain, 1.5 kilometres northeast of the B.C. (Lot 882) claim (082ESE060).

Turn of the century workings on the Maple Leaf claim, which was Crown granted in 1899, consists of a 40-metre shaft with a drift up to 22 metres. The drift passed through a 8.5-metre wide ore zone. Mineralization consists of quartz gangue carrying pyrrhotite, chalcopyrite and gold values within diorite. Thirty three tonnes of ore were reported being shipped to a smelter in 1904. The claim was owned by W.M. Gowans in 1928.

In 1991, Pan Orvana Resources Inc. conducted mapping and geochemical sampling east of this showing. However, a sample of quartz-calcite vein material on a dump at this site returned an assay of 1.98 per cent copper, 327.9 grams per tonne silver, 3.29 gram per tonne gold and 0.29 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 22105).

The area is underlain by limestone of the Triassic Brooklyn Group. These rocks are cut by diorites of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Wallace Creek Pluton and porphyries of the Eocene Coryell Intrusions.

Bibliography
EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G
EMPR AR 1899-603,*761,849; 1900-870; 1901-1064; 1904-219
EMPR ASS RPT 22105
EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)
EMPR OF 1990-25
EMPR P 1986-2
EMPR PF (Starr, C.C. (1928-06-11): Report of Preliminary Examinations of the Maple Leaf Claim, Eholt)
GSC MAP *828; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1969
GSC P 67-42; 79-29
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 1191, 600125

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