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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082F1 Pb1
Name VIRGINIA (L.7055), OHIO (L.7056), DELAWARE, DELAWARE NO. 2 (L.7054) Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F018
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F01W
Latitude 049º 10' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 28' 28'' Northing 5446117
Easting 538312
Commodities Lead, Silver, Zinc, Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Delaware No. 2 (Lot 7054) is a small past producer of silver, gold, lead and zinc (259 tonnes from the years 1929, 1947-1950). The adjacent Crown grants are the Virginia (Lot 7055) and Ohio (Lot 7056), all on the south-facing slope of Rolf Mountain, 8 kilometres north of Creston.

Hostrocks consist of quartzites of the Aldridge Formation and a gabbro sill of the Moyie intrusions, both of the Purcell Supergroup of Middle Proterozoic age. A wide zone of shearing strikes 007 degrees, dipping 70 degrees west, approximately parallel to bedding, and is cut by a quartz vein varying from less than 10 centimetres to 1 metre in thickness, striking 330 degrees and dipping 53 degrees west. The vein contains pods, bunches and lenses of galena over a strike length of 150 metres, and was mined on two levels approximately 40 metres apart. Rare chalcopyrite is present, as well as minor pyromorphite (lead phosphate) presumably due to surface oxidation.

Diamond drilling in 1952 and electromagnetic surveys in 1954 failed to extend the known mineralization, although trenching did extend the strike of the quartz vein.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1906-251; 1928-354; 1929-285,360; *1949-194; 1950-152; 1951-
41,180; 1952-195; 1958-62
EMPR ASS RPT 113
EMPR BC METAL MM00984
EMPR FIELDWORK 1993, pp. 129-151; 1994, pp. 111-125
EMPR INDEX 3-194
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228, p. 76
GSC OF 929; 2721
Therriault, R. (2012-03-15): NI-43-101 Compliant Technical Report on the Iron Range Precious and Base Metal Property
EMPR PFD 752707

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