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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Apr-1991 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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Name TWO STAR, EVENING STAR (L.3778), MORNING STAR (L.3779), MILL (L.14582), YANKEE - DUNDEE Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F025
Status Prospect NTS Map 082F06E
Latitude 049º 17' 44'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 10' 13'' Northing 5460326
Easting 487619
Commodities Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Two Star showing is located 32 kilometres south of Nelson, just east of Ymir. Development began on this property in 1933.

The area is underlain by granodiorite of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions, a small pendant of Jurassic Ymir Group argillite occurs near the showing.

The occurrence is on the strike extension of the Yankee Girl (082FSW068) and Dundee (082FSW067) vein systems. The occurrence comprises a vein in a strong quartz filled shear which strikes 055 degrees within argillite. The vein is wide and hosts pyrite and fine-grained galena and sphalerite.

Kingsvale Resources Ltd. optioned the property in 1988 and conducted trenching and sampling; they dropped the option in 1989. The sampling program in 1988 from the Evening Star shaft resulted in an average assay of 10.11 grams per tonne gold and 118.27 grams per tonne silver over 2.4 metres (George Cross News Letter No.216, 1988). Assays to the west of the shaft were higher.

There has been no recorded production from this occurrence although there has been a great deal of surface and underground development.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1933-224,317
EMPR ASS RPT 7196, 9021, 14719
EMPR BULL 1; 41; 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 149-158; 1981, pp. 28-32, pp. 176-186; 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 247-249; 1990, pp. 291-300
EMPR MAP 7685G; RGS 1977; 8480G
EMPR OF 1988-1; *1989-11; 1991-16
EMPR PF (Meyer, W. (1976): Report on the Lakeview and Two Star Group)
GSC MAP 51-4A; 1090A; 1144A
GSC MEM *94; 191; 308
GSC OF 1195
GSC P 51-4
GCNL #208, 1976; *#216, 1988
PR REL Kingsvale Resources Ltd., Nov. 2, 1988

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