MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082FSW336

File Created:	15-Feb-1989	by	Kathryn P.E. Andrews (KPA)
Last Edit:	22-Mar-2022	by	Nicole Barlow (NB)

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		NMI
Name	THREE FRIENDS, ALICE	Mining Division	Nelson
		BCGS Map	082F034
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082F06E
Latitude	049º 22' 57''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 14' 37''	Northing	5470006
		Easting	482319
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Copper	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Three Friends occurrence is located about 6 kilometres south of Nelson on the north side of Hall Creek. The occurrence comprises workings on two claims (Three Friends 1 and Alice), about 1 kilometre apart.

The area is underlain by augite porphyry flows, flow breccias and tuffs of the Lower Jurassic Upper Elise Formation, Rossland Group, adjacent to sheared Lower Jurassic Silver King plagioclase porphyry. Regionally developed foliation strikes north-northwest and dips steeply to the southwest.

Gold, silver and copper mineralization is confined to 20 to 30- centimetre quartz veins parallel to the foliation.

A 20-metre adit, on the Three Friends showing, was driven on the main vein which squeezed between augite porphyry in the hanging wall and sheared Silver King porphyry in the footwall. The veins contain tetrahedrite and malachite.

The quartz vein exposed in an opencut near the Alice adit is mineralized with tetrahedrite and malachite with lesser chalcopyrite and pyrite. The vein is about 30 centimetres wide, strikes 280 degrees and dips steeply south. This is the same vein exposed in the adit and has been traced for 76 metres. High, erratic gold values were reported.

In 2000, Sultan Minerals Inc. collected a grab sample from the occurrence that returned a grade of 0.74 grams per tonne gold (Giroux, G., Grunenberg, P. (2012-04-30): Technical Report on the Kena Property, Nelson, BC).

In 2012, Eagle Mapping Ltd. conducted an airborne LiDAR survey over a 15.3 square kilometre area of the Kena Property.

In 2012 to 2013, Altair Gold Inc. conducted a rock sampling program over the property occurrences of Gold Mountain, Kena Gold, Euphrates, South Gold, and Three Friends. Of the 179 rock samples collected, eight returned gold grades greater than 0.3 grams per tonne.

Bibliography

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Andrew, K.P.E. and Hoy, T. (1990): Structural Models for Precious Metal Deposits in Jurassic Arc Volcanic rocks of the Rossland Group, southeastern B.C.; abstract with program, G.A.C. - M.A.C. Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., p. A3

Hoy, T. and Andrew, K.P.E. (1988): Geology, geochemistry and mineral deposits of the Lower Jurassic Rossland Group, southeastern British Columbia; abstract in Twelfth District 6 Meeting, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Fernie, B.C., pp. 11-12

EMPR PFD 502151

Giroux, G., Grunenberg, P. (2012-04-30): Technical Report on the Kena Property, Nelson, BC.

Giroux, G., Park, V. (2013-02-07): Technical Report for the Kena Property, Nelson, BC.

Giroux, G., Park, V. (2017-06-02): Technical Report for the Kena Project, Nelson, BC.

Moose Mountain Technical Services (2021-05-03): NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties, Moose Mountain Technical Services (2021-07-19): NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties