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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Apr-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082F3 WO6
Name FEENEY (L.9074) Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F014
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082F03E
Latitude 049º 06' 40'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 13' 25'' Northing 5439832
Easting 483681
Commodities Tungsten, Molybdenum Deposit Types K05 : W skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel, Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Feeney tungsten zone is located on the east side of the granitic Emerald stock of the Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions. The zone forms a relatively shallow ore body within the Lower Cambrian Laib Formation along the contact of the Reeves Member limestone and Emerald Member argillite and along the granite-limestone contact.

The mineralization consists of scheelite with minor powellite, rare wolframite and traces of molybdenite in a green and brown garnet-diopside skarn containing augite, actinolite, epidote, pyrrhotite and quartz. Both the Emerald (082FSW010) and Feeney orebodies are transected by the Granite fault and drilling east and north of the fault located the Invincible tungsten zone (082FSW218).

Most of the scheelite occurs as fine, disseminated grains in lenticular skarn zones which extend from the granite contact out into the limestone-argillite country rock conformable to bedding. The skarn zones are up to 6 metres long and average about 2 metres in width. Grades are about 0.5 to 1.5 per cent tungsten.

The Feeney mine lies north of and along strike of the Emerald mine and south of the Invincible mine. The Dodger (082FSW011) workings lie to the east. The Feeney mine operated between 1951 and 1955 and produced about 54,000 tonnes of ore (Bulletin 41, page 119). It is not known if production recommenced after this period. The production data is included with that of the Jersey mine (082FSW009).

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK *1999, pp. 214-219
EMPR AR 1951-A140; 1952-A147; 1953-A45,117; 1954-A49,A127; 1955-A48; 1956-A50,82; 1957-A46,44; 1958-A45,38; 1959-279
EMPR ASS RPT 8130, 8132, 29778, 37011, 37833
EMPR BULL 10 (Rev); *41, p. 119; 101, pp. 20, Appendix 3, 6; 109
EMPR EXPL 1980-53
EMPR OF 1991-17; 1998-8-M, pp. 1-74
GSC EC GEOL *17, pp. 107,110
GSC MAP 50-19A; 299A; 1090A; 1145A
GSC MEM 308
GSC OF 1195
GSC P 49-22; 52-13
Cowle, S. (2007-05-23): Technical Report on the Jersey Emerald Property, British Columbia
Giroux, G.H. (2009-01-12): Summary Report and Preliminary Resource Calculations for the East Emerald and Emerald Mine Tungsten Zone – Jersey-Emerald Property
Giroux, G.H. (2009-02-23): Summary Report and Preliminary Resource Calculations for the East Emerald and Emerald Mine Tungsten Zone – Jersey-Emerald Property
Giroux, G.H. (2010-02-2): Resource Estimation for the Jersey Lead Zinc Deposits, Jersey-Emerald Property
Giroux, G.H. (2014-03-28): Technical Report for the Jersey-Emerald Property
Park, V. (2015-03-15): Technical Report for the Tungsten Resource Update of the Jersey-Emerald Property
Moose Mountain Technical Services (2021-07-26): NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Jersey-Emerald Project

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