MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082KSE012

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	22-Jul-2020	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	PRESIDENT (L.2006), TWO BROTHERS (L.2005), PRESIDENT FR. (L.2007), HOUSER (L.2008), HOUSER FR. (L.2009), HAUSER, RUBY	Mining Division	Revelstoke, Slocan
		BCGS Map	082K045
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082K06E
Latitude	050º 24' 51''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	116º 59' 58''	Northing	5584681
		Easting	500039
Commodities	Silver, Zinc, Copper	Deposit Types	E13 : Irish-type carbonate-hosted Zn-Pb E12 : Mississippi Valley-type Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay, Ancestral North America

Capsule Geology

The President occurrence is located on Gallop Creek, west of Duncan Lake in the Slocan Mining Division. The showing is situated on Reverted Crown grant Lot 2006 which is part of a contiguous group of three Reverted Crown grants and two fractional Reverted Crown grants (Lots 2005 to 2009).

Regionally, the area lies within the Kootenay Arc near the margins of the Ancestral North American Terrane. The Kootenay Arc is a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Eocambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Ordovician, Devonian and Mississippian granitoid plutons. The rocks have undergone regional metamorphism to middle or upper greenschist facies (Paper 1993-1).

The property is underlain by quartzite, limestone and volcanic rocks of the Index Formation of the Paleozoic Lardeau Group. The quartzite is locally brecciated and chloritic within north-trending shears. A 2 metre chip sample across a mineralized shear assayed 260 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 9480). Ore minerals within the shear consist of argentite and sphalerite. Trenching work in 1970 uncovered a 3.5 metre wide area of quartz veining within altered limestone (see Two Brothers, 082KSW123). This area of mineralization consists of mariposite, pyrite and tetrahedrite occurring as stringers in the narrow quartz veins but containing only low silver values (Exploration in British Columbia 1977).

Work History

In the 1890’s, mineralized float was identified in the area.

In 1970, a program of stripping and trenching was reportedly performed on the area. In 1976, Precambrian Shield Resources Ltd. option the property from Consolidated Boundary Exploration Ltd. and a lone diamond drill hole was completed. In 1980, Cominco completed a program of soil sampling and trenching.

In 2011, the area was examined by Moose Mountain Technical Services on the behalf of Rainbow Resources Inc. as the Big Strike property.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1898-1084,1190,1192; 1903-244; 1924-368; *1925-236; 1926-269;

1928-310

EMPR ASS RPT 6282, *9480

EMPR BULL 49

EMPR EXPL 1976-E47; *1977-E65; 1978-E77; 1980-114,115

EMPR FIELDWORK 1992, pp. 9-16

EMPR GEM 1969-336, Fig.41,#79; 1970-462; 1971-424

EMPR GEOS MAP 1995-1

EMPR OF 2000-22

EMPR PF (Starr, C.C. (1926): Report of Preliminary Examination of

President Group, 5 p.; Canadian Superior Exploration Ltd., Field

notes and assay results; 82KSE General File - Geology map by P.

Billingsley, 1958)

GSC MAP 1326A

GSC MEM 161; 369

GCNL #213, 1979

Pope, A.J. (1989): The Tectonics and Mineralization of the Toby-

Horsethief Creek Area, Purcell Mountains, Southeast British

Columbia, Canada, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of London,

England

Morris, R.J. (2012-03-27): Property of Merit Report– West Kootenay Properties – Big Strike Project

EMPR PFD 4140, 4141, 4142, 812113