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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082F14 Ag57
Name GOLD CURE (L.5294), GOLD CURE GROUP, GOLD CURE FR. (L.5295), FULL RIG (L.5296), CROWN POINT (L.5297), KASLO SILVER Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F085
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F14E
Latitude 049º 52' 54'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 05' 05'' Northing 5525477
Easting 493913
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel, Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Gold Cure occurrence is located at 2010 metres elevation on the divide between Briggs and Klawala creeks, eastern tributaries of Keen Creek. Kaslo, British Columbia lies about 20 kilometres to the east.

Ground covering the occurrence forms the Gold Cure claim group, consisting of the Gold Cure (Lot 5294), Gold Cure Fraction (Lot 5295), Full Rig (Lot 5296) and Crown Point (Lot 5297) Reverted Crown grants.

Little information is available about the early years of the Gold Cure occurrence. The claims were first located in 1898 and produced 18 tonnes of ore in 1909. Further development work was carried out in 1917, extending the main adit to 34 metres length. In 1920, the property was acquired by Marsh Mines and Development Co. and a small amount of development work was continued. In 1924, the Gold Cure and Wintrop (082FNW097) occurrences were reported to be under the same management. No work was reported at this time however. Red Hawk Gold Mines Ltd. acquired an option on the property in 1950. The old adits were reopened and a contract signed to do 610 metres of diamond drilling. Cream Minerals sampled the property in 1997; a 0.3-metre chip sample assayed 175.6 grams per tonne silver, 8.18 per cent zinc and 0.08 per cent lead (GCNL #174, 1997). An 8-metre trench sample assayed 260.4 grams per tonne silver, 0.72 per cent zinc and 0.66 per cent lead (GCNL #230, 1997). A 25 to 80-metre northeast-trending shear zone has been traced for 3.7 kilometres.

In 2013, Agave Silver Corp. examined the area as the Kaslo property.

Gold Cure mineralization occurs along the same northeast-trending structure as the Bismark (082FNW096) in the Triassic Slocan Group sediments. Hornblende potassium feldspar porphyritic granite of the Nelson batholith lies 400 metres to the southwest. The Middle Jurassic Mount Carlyle stock lies to the northwest. Potassium feldspar porphyritic granite comprises the stock. The Slocan Group comprises argillite, silicic sandstone and a layer of recrystallized limestone that is over 20 metres thick.

Faults and fractures at the Gold Cure occurrence host associated replacement and vein mineralization. They are stratabound and subparallel to the contact with the Middle Jurassic Nelson batholith. Mineralization at the Gold Cure occurrence consists of galena, sphalerite and pyrite hosted in a gangue of quartz and calcite.

Eighteen tonnes of ore were mined from the Gold Cure occurrence in 1909. This ore yielded 62,206 grams silver and 9072 kilograms lead.

Bibliography
EM EXPL 1998-10,71
EMPR AR 1898-1085; 1909-106; 1912-K323; 1917-157,186; 1950-138
EMPR ASS RPT 5598, 5968, 6094, 7913, 8437, 12146
EMPR BC METAL MM01207
EMPR BULL 9, p. 83; 45, pp. 59,64
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 31-48,535-541
EMPR INDEX 3-197
EMPR OF 1988-11
EMPR P *1989-5
EMPR PF (Various maps, reports by R.J. Maconachie, 1942, S.S.
Holland)
GSC MAP 1929-36
GSC MEM 161, p. 84; 173, Map 272A; *184, p. 220; 308, p. 131
CANMET RPT 592, p. 47
CIM Jan. 1983, Vol.76, #849, pp. 115-124; Mar. 1982
GCNL #229, 1981; #174(Sept.10), #185(Sept.25), #230(Dec.1), 1997;
#85(May 4), #151(Aug.7), #182(Sept.22), 1998
N MINER May 4, Aug. 17, #220(Nov.17), 1998
McBride, D.E. (2014-04-15): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Kaslo Property

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