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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Dec-1999 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI 082F15 Mn2
Name HARP, ZWICKY Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F096
Status Showing NTS Map 082F15W
Latitude 049º 55' 47'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 59' 01'' Northing 5530817
Easting 501176
Commodities Rhodonite, Manganese, Garnet, Gemstones, Copper Deposit Types H06 : Epithermal Mn
Q02 : Rhodonite
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Slide Mountain
Capsule Geology

The showings are reported to be at 820 metres elevation, east of Zwicky. The Harp, Collingwood, and Black Diamond claims comprising this property were owned in 1918 by W.J. Murphy, of Kaslo. The workings at that time included trenches and a 10-metre drift adit.

A series of quartz veins occur in sedimentary rocks or along the contact of sediments with greenstone schist of the Lower Permian Kaslo Group. The footwall rock of one vein was explored by a short adit. It consists of a greenish schist carrying abundant rhodonite in lens-like masses from 5 to 45 centimetres wide, adjacent to the quartz vein. The hangingwall is a quartzitic argillite containing manganiferous garnet, partly altered to manganese oxide.

The veins consist of vitreous to smoky quartz mineralized with pyrrhotite, pyrite and chalcopyrite.

Bibliography
SARGENT H.MANGANESE OCCURRENCES IN BC 1956-26
CAN ROCKHOUND FEB 1966-9
GSC P72-53-61, P64-37-22
GSC MEM 173-127,
GSC ECON. GEOL. SERIES NO 12-111
GSC MEM 184-221
GSC SUM RPT PT B, 30
EMPR AR 1918-161
EMPR PFD 1676, 800612

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