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File Created: 21-Sep-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)
Last Edit:  14-Dec-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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NMI
Name LAMB, FALL Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F030
Status Showing NTS Map 082F08E, 082G05W
Latitude 049º 16' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 00' 59'' Northing 5458307
Easting 571549
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
C01 : Surficial placers
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Lamb and Fall claim blocks (staked by two separate parties) were intended to cover the possibility of lode gold source for placer gold known to occur in the headwaters of Lamb Creek. Heavy mineral concentrates from stream sediments downstream of the Moyie fault assayed up to 286 parts per billion gold and were anomalous in copper and arsenic as well.

Minor copper mineralization was located on fractures in the Kitchener Formation in the immediate footwall of the Moyie fault. The Kitchener Formation, part of the Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup, here consists of siltstone, dolomitic siltstone, argillite and turbidite quartzite. Extensive silicification is observed near the fault where exposure permits. Several large barren quartz veins are present.

Ground magnetic surveys were used to locate structures. One short diamond-drill hole (24.7 metres) was drilled to test below the sheared silicified copper mineralized zone but failed to intersect any mineralization.

Bibliography
EM GEOS MAP 1998-3
EMPR ASS RPT 21505, 22543, 23021
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721
EMPR PFD 861287

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