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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  04-Aug-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082F3 Au4
Name JOINT (L.8344), DOUBLE JOINT (L.8345) Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F015
Status Showing NTS Map 082F03E
Latitude 049º 09' 48'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 08' 04'' Northing 5445622
Easting 490199
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Gold, Silver Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Joint vein is an east-west trending quartz vein within limestone of the Lower to Middle Ordovician Active Formation. The limestones and argillites of the Active Formation are in fault contact with Lower Cambrian Laib Formation sediments to the east and host a stock of Middle to Late Jurassic Nelson Intrusions southwest of the occurrence.

Mineralization consists of minor disseminated galena, sphalerite, and pyrite in quartz gangue. Both walls of the vein contain minor streaks of limonite and have spotty gold and silver values over narrow widths.

In late 2016, Margaux Resources Ltd. optioned the property and in 2017 examined the area. A grab sample (SC17-BL06) from a dump located near the Joint adit portal assayed 12.08 grams per tonne gold, 545 grams per tonne silver, 10.50 per cent lead and 13.62 per cent zinc, while two grab samples (SC17-BL07A and B) from a dump located near the Joint shaft yielded 21.80 and 3.09 grams per tonne gold, 1021 and 19.29 grams per tonne silver, 33.68 and 0.500 per cent lead with 9.84 and 11.38 per cent zinc, respectively (Lane, R.A. (2017-08-17): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Sheep Creek Project).

See Gold Belt (082FSW044) for exploration and development details.

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK 1999, pp. 349-358
EMPR AR 1909-276; 1910-111; *1932-189; 1936-E7
EMPR ASS RPT 12988, 16828
EMPR BULL *31, p. 65; 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 11-27;
1990, pp. 9-31
EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11; 1990-8; 1990-9; 1991-2; 1991-16
GSC MAP 50-19A; 299A; 1090A; *1145A
GSC MEM 172, p. 33
GSC OF 1195
*Lane, R.A. (2017-08-17): NI 43-101 Technical Report on the Sheep Creek Project
EMPR PFD 751935, 751936, 751937

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