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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  02-Dec-1995 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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NMI 082K3 Pb2,Ag6
Name SILVER BELL NO. 2 (L.2092), SILVER BELL NO. 2 MINE, NATIVE SILVER BELLE Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K005
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082K03E
Latitude 050º 00' 19'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 11' 18'' Northing 5539235
Easting 486504
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Silver Bell No. 2 occurrence is located in the Rambler basin at the headwaters of Rambler Creek. The former Antoine mine (082KSW011) is located 800 metres to the southwest. New Denver, British Columbia is 11 kilometres to the southwest. The Silver Bell No. 2 was formerly known as the Native Silver Belle.

The Silver Bell No. 2 is hosted by slates and fissile argillites and minor limestones of the Triassic Slocan Group. The general strike of these lithologies is southeast and dips are 35 to 60 degrees southwest. These sediments are intruded by irregular quartz to feldspar porphyry bodies and lamprophyre dikes.

Workings at the Silver Bell No. 2 consist of two adits, of which the lower is a crosscut that did not reach the lode explored by the upper adit. This adit was driven in 1929. The lode is thought to be the extension of the adjoining Antoine and Red Fox (082KSW065) lodes.

Production records for the Silver Bell No. 2 indicate 96 tonnes mined. Recovery totalled 492,485 grams silver and 43,924 kilograms lead. The grade of the ore shipped in 1898 and 1899 was reported as 6754 grams per tonne silver and 66 per cent lead (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 184, page 123).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1899-680,847; 1904-202; 1905-161; 1908-99; 1909-115; *1929- 312
EMPR BC METAL MM01393
EMPR INDEX 3-212
GSC MAP 1667
GSC MEM *173, Map 273A; *184, p. 123
GSC OF 288; 432; 464
EMPR PFD 520444, 520445, 520447

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