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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Dec-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI
Name SKYLARK, HOMESTAKE, PARK, VICTORIA Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F006
Status Showing NTS Map 082F02W
Latitude 049º 00' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 50' 04'' Northing 5428210
Easting 512108
Commodities Silver, Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Homestake (Skylark, Park, Victoria) showings are not accurately located, being described only as "on Boundary Creek". Thus, the plotted location could be in error by as much as 10 kilometres. There is no description in the single reference (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1900) of the geology to aid in positioning of the occurrence; hostrock is assumed to be phyllitic siltstones of the Aldridge Formation (Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup), taken from Brown et al. (Fieldwork 1994). Showings at both the Homestake and Skylark consist of grey copper (tetrahedrite) and galena, assumed to be in a quartz vein gangue. On the Homestake, a tunnel was driven 25 metres on the vein, and on the Skylark a shaft traced it down for 15 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1899-602; 1900-855; 1901-1224
EMPR FIELDWORK 1994, pp. 135-155
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721
EMPR PFD 841792

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