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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Nov-2014 by Laura deGroot (LDG)

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NMI
Name BEV, DEN, LLOYD, DALE Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E033
Status Showing NTS Map 082E05E
Latitude 049º 22' 12'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 33' 46'' Northing 5471747
Easting 313954
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Okanagan, Overlap Assemblage
Capsule Geology

The Bev showing is located on the eastern side of Skaha Lake, 3 kilometres north of the Dusty Mac occurrence (082ESW078). In 1969, Dusty Chief Mines Ltd. held the ground north of the Dusty Mac to explore for potential extension of gold and silver mineralization onto their claims.

The northern portion of the property is underlain by the Okanagan Gneiss complex. The Okanagan gneiss consists dominantly of strongly foliated, hornblende, biotite granodiorite orthogneiss. The orthogneiss is massive, resistant and weathers medium grey. The strong foliation locally grades to mylonitic gneiss, mylonite and blastomylonite. Minor amphibolite and paragneiss are also present. The gneiss is strongly chloritized along the Okanagan fault. To the south, the Eocene Penticton Group consists of the Kitley Lake Member of the Marron Formation and the overlying White Lake Formation. The Kitley Lake Member consists of massive, yellow to buff, trachyte to trachyandesite. The White Lake Formation consists of light coloured pyroclastic rocks, thick feldspathic andesite lahar deposits, minor andesitic lavas, and minor sandstones and carbonaceous shales.

These units are on the south limb of a southeasterly trending syncline. The beds have variable dips ranging from about 30 to 55 degrees northeast. A strong crossfracture system strikes approximately 010 degrees dipping about 80 degrees westerly almost perpendicular to the synclinal axis.

Line-cutting was done on the claims in 1969 but no record could be found describing any mineralization. Tectonic breccia, silicification, quartz veins and gossan occur at several locations northwest from the Dusty Mac and which may occur on the Bev claims (Bulletin 61, Figure 5.1).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 1967
EMPR BULL *61
EMPR GEM *1969-294
EMPR MAP 35 (Preliminary)
EMPR PF (Prospectors Report 2001-5 by Mel Hegge)
GSC MAP 341A; 538A; 539A; 541A; 15-1961; 1736A; 2389
GSC OF 481; 637; 1969; 2167
GSC P 37-21; 77-1A; 89-1E
EMPR PFD 825178, 825179, 825180

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