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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  03-Jul-2013 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI 082F15 Ag2
Name NORANDA, BUGABOO, SILVER GLANCE, J&D, TRIUMPH Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F076
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F15W
Latitude 049º 46' 13'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 55' 56'' Northing 5513092
Easting 504881
Commodities Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
J01 : Polymetallic manto Ag-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

This group of claims lies along the western edge of the Highland and Florence properties and covers an area extending from near Cedar Creek to the South Fork of Woodbury Creek.

The principal rocks of the Noranda are schists and limestone of the Mississippian to Lower Permian Milford Group. Granite also outcrops in the vicinity. The property was developed along with the Silver Glance (082FNE010) in the 1950s and 1960s.

The mineralization on the claim group is described as consisting of quartz and siderite containing galena, sphalerite, pyrite, pyrrhotite and minor chalcopyrite. In the Noranda adit, lead-zinc mineralization over 1 metre thick was followed for over 30 metres and was eventually mined out in 1964 and 1965, amounting to 2177 tonnes of ore (Bulletin 53).

The Hercules-Silver Glance group consists of the Hercules, Sullivan, Noranda, Silver Bell, Glen Ellen, Harrison, Free Silver and Silver Glance claims. Three of the claims, formerly called the Pataha, Bugaboo and Ellen were relocated in 1951 under the respective names of Hercules, Sullivan and Noranda.

Most of the development work on the Hercules claim was done about 1890. The workings now consist of 36 metres of tunnel in two adits, a shaft 4.5 metres feet deep and some trenching. On the Sullivan claim a 23 metre shaft was put down about 1895. Nubar Mines Ltd. of Toronto held an option on the claims in 1951 and are reported to have done some diamond drilling. The Asbestos Corporation Ltd. did about 914 metres of diamond drilling in 30 holes in 1952. The results of this work have apparently not been released by the company.

The Silver Glance claim, which lies astride the South Fork of Woodbury Creek, about 3 kilometres from its mouth, has had the most development work done on it. The property was located in 1896 and was apparently worked intermittently for about 4 years. A tunnel at creek level follows the vein in a 110 degree direction for 66 metres. Here the vein splits and is followed by two branches of the tunnel, one going 85 degrees for 23 metres, in which the vein appears to pinch out, the other branch extending for 18 metres at 110 degrees with the vein still in the face.

In 1952 Guichon Mine Ltd., owners of the Buckeye claim, held an option on all the above claims, however their work was apparently confined to the Buckeye. Between 1951 and 1957 considerable work was done by Triumph Mines Limited. In 1964 and 1965 ore was mined from the Noranda adit and shipped to the Yale mill in Ainsworth. By 1967, the property was owned by Blue Star Mines limited.

Bibliography
EMPR PF (Plans and sketch maps, Triumph Mine; Prospectus: Ainsworth Resources Ltd. 1980)
EMPR AR 1954-133, 1955-58, 1956-92, 1957-50
EMPR ASS RPT 138
EMPR BULL 53, p. 108
THESIS, REBAGLIATTI

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