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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-1997 by B. Neil Church (BNC)

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Name HOLLINGER, GLADSTONE (L.12083), GLADIATOR (L.12088), EAGLE (L.12090), MONTI (L.12091), BESSIE (L.19092), BUENA VISTA (L.12089), CHAPLEAU CREEK, RAGAMAC Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F074
Status Showing NTS Map 082F11W
Latitude 049º 43' 42'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 22' 16'' Northing 5508492
Easting 473254
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Hollinger group of claims is located on the southeast side of Chapleau Creek, 8 kilometres southeast of Slocan City. Access is from the Lemon Creek road that connects to the Slocan highway. See also 082FNW130, 131, 133-136.

The principal exposure on the property consists of a quartz vein striking 180 degrees dipping 15 degrees, with a width ranging from 0.3 to 1.2 metres. The quartz filling is strongly fractured and mineralized slightly with pyrite. The Nelson granite which hosts the vein, is badly decomposed in vicinity of the old workings. Development on this showing includes surface stripping at intervals over a length of 168 metres. Also, an adit has been driven on strike of the vein for 9 metres from a face at the southwest end of the stripping at 1620 metres elevation. A series of samples taken across the vein in the adit assay from nil to 5.5 grams per tonne gold and 6.9 grams per tonne silver.

In a southeasterly direction from these workings, and near the top of the hill, considerable amount of work was done previously. This development is scattered and shows several narrow but reportedly high grade veins in the granite. Some 180 metres southeast, a second adit has been driven southeastward for 10 metres on another vein. The vein has a width of 30 centimetres at the portal but pinches rapidly to 8 centimetres within the adit. The vein is flat lying and dips 10 to 15 degrees northwest and is down faulted repeatedly. Near the face of this adit an 8-centimetre sample of heavily oxidized vein material assayed 37 grams per tonne gold and 730 grams per tonne silver.

Another caved working, 68 metres further to the east, shows a 7- to 10-centimetre wide quartz vein in granite. It strikes due north and dips 10 to 15 east into the hill. A sample of honeycombed quartz from which much of the sulphide mineralization had been leached, assayed 32 grams per tonne gold and 390 grams per tonne silver.

King Jack Resources Ltd. conducted surveys on the Chapleau Creek property between 1985 to 1987.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1938-E10
EMPR ASS RPT 17367, 19093
EMPR BULL 7, p. 2
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P 1989-5
EMPR PF (Santos, P.J. (1986): Consolidated Report on the Chapleau Creek Property for King Jack Resources Ltd. in 082FNW135)
GSC MAP 1090A
GSC MEM 308

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