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File Created: 31-Jul-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)
Last Edit:  31-Jul-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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NMI
Name PANDRE (L.2661), ALMA (L.2660) Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E015
Status Prospect NTS Map 082E03E
Latitude 049º 07' 23'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 11' 51'' Northing 5443461
Easting 339671
Commodities Gold, Lead Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Okanagan
Capsule Geology

The Pandre occurrence is located at 1432 metres elevation on the southern slopes of Baldy Mountain, 1.25 kilometres northwest of the Cariboo-Amelia occurrence (082ESW020) of the historic Camp McKinney. The occurrence consists of quartz veins on the Pandre (Lot 2661) and Alma (Lot 2660) Reverted Crown grants.

The Pandre occurrence lies in a complex sequence of volcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Anarchist Group. To the north are Cretaceous granitic and granodioritic rocks of the Okanagan batholith. Middle Jurassic granitic rocks of the Nelson intrusions occur to the southwest. Eocene Penticton Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks overlie locally sheared amphibolite and serpentinite bodies of the Anarchist Group to the east. For a more detailed description of the regional geology of the McKinney camp refer to the Cariboo-Amelia occurrence (082ESW020). Quartzites of the Anarchist Group are reported to the dominant hostrock of the Pandre occurrence (Assessment Report 9840).

The earliest recorded development on the Pandre occurrence was in 1898 when a 46-centimetre wide quartz vein was discovered on the Alma and a quartz vein carrying free gold was discovered on the Pandre (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1898, page 1117). At this time, development on the Alma consisted of two 3-metre shafts. On the Pandre, a 3.6-metre shaft was sunk. Surface stripping exposed the vein for 30 metres length. In the following year, two shafts on the Pandre were 9.1 and 10.7 metres deep, respectively. Several test pits were also dug. The vein was traced along these test pits for 640 metres length. The average width of the vein was 60 centimetres. Free gold, pyrite and galena comprised the vein mineralogy (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1899, page 774). Assay values were reported to have been very high (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1899, page 774). No further work was reported on either claim until 1981. However, the Alma claim was Crown granted to P.B.S. Stanhope in 1905 and the Pandre was Crown granted to Executors of the E. James estate in 1909.

In 1981, a joint exploration program was conducted on the ground covering the Pandre occurrence by McQuillan Gold Ltd. and Jan Resources Ltd. The program was limited to prospecting and a soil geochemistry survey. A zinc soil anomaly was found which extended onto the Pandre and eastern edge of the Alma claims. In 1986, A. Dupras conducted limited prospecting and rock geochemistry sampling on ground surrounding the Pandre occurrence. No significant results were reported.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1898-1117; *1899-774; 1905-254; 1909-277
EMPR ASS RPT *9840, 12389, *15519, 16168
EMPR BULL 6, pp. 1-15
EMPR MR MAP 7 (1934)
EMPR OF 1898-5
GSC MAP 538A; 539A; 37-21; 15-1961; 1738A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969
Basque, G. (1992): Ghost Towns and Mining Camps of the Boundary Camp, pp. 12-22
EMPR PFD 800470, 800471, 800476

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