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File Created: 11-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  18-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name GOLDEN WEDGE, GR, G.R., CRUSADER RIDGE Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082F074
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F11W
Latitude 049º 43' 08'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 19' 26'' Northing 5507427
Easting 476653
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Molybdenum Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Golden Wedge showing is located on Crusader Ridge, approximately 11 kilometres south east of Slocan. A number of old workings, from the late 1890’s, occur in the area of the showing.

The area is underlain by porphyritic granite and a finer grained greenish-grey granite of the Jurassic Nelson intrusions, cut by lamprophyre and pegmatite dikes (some pyritized).

Locally, a quartz vein with sericite alteration is shown along the old workings for over 1.2 kilometres. The quartz veins were reported to carry values in gold and silver associated with iron pyrites, silver sulfides, and sometimes free gold and silver. The mining of the quartz vein, in 1897 to 1898, returned values of approximately 125 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 28546).

In 2006 through 2008, a program of geological mapping, soil, stream sediment and rock sampling was performed as a part of G.R. claims on the Crusader Ridge property.

Soil samples collected in 2006, returned up to 4467.2 parts per billion gold (Assessment Report 28546). In 2008, a rock sample of quartz vein from 100 metres down slope of the old workings returned 103.1 grams per tonne gold, 126 parts per million silver and 30 parts per million molybdenum. Another sample, taken 100 metres to the north, at the W-8CD adit, returned 103.3 parts per billion gold, 57 grams per tonne silver, 3.43 per cent lead and 159 parts per million molybdenum (Assessment Report 30293).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 30293, 28546
EMPR PFD 822497

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