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File Created: 15-Nov-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)
Last Edit:  08-Dec-1995 by Craig H.B. Leitch (CHBL)

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Name LOST MINE, MARTILDE (L.3870), SCHUMLKA (L.3871) Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F047
Status Showing NTS Map 082F07E
Latitude 049º 25' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 43' 24'' Northing 5475357
Easting 520061
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Lost Mine showings consist of a 40 metre long adit at 1050 metres elevation, 975 metres north of the Valparaiso adit (082FSE038) and 30 metres south of the Gold King adit (082FSE096). These showings are located on the Martilde Reverted Crown grant (Lot 3870) and the Schumlka (Lot 3871), on the south side of Akokli Creek, about 2 kilometres from its mouth on the east side of Kootenay Lake.

The showings are described in Assessment Report 10811 as consisting of a shear zone (the same Val zone that hosts the Valparaiso) containing two fractured quartz veins, 0.4 and 0.6 metre thick, with an intervening zone of micaceous altered (greisenized) granodiorite of the middle Cretaceous Bayonne batholith. The zone totals 1.4 metres thick and strikes 020 degrees, dipping 70 degrees east. Weathered sulphides (mostly pyrite) with limonite are found chiefly in the footwall gouge zone; a channel sample assayed 0.7 gram per tonne gold and 27.4 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 10811).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *10811, 17527, 19464
EMPR OF 2000-8
GSC MEM 228 (Map 603A)
GSC OF 929; 2721
EMPR PFD 680171

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