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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Oct-1995 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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Name SWEET GRASS (L.8329), WILMER FR. (L.8330), SWEETGRASS Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K004
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082K03W
Latitude 050º 00' 06'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 21' 04'' Northing 5538875
Easting 474838
Commodities Silver, Gold, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Sweet Grass and Wilmer Crown-granted claims are located on Mount Carpenter (Goat Mountain) southwest of the Capello claim group (082KSW003). The claims are 1 kilometre northwest of the centre of New Denver. Production in 1900 and 1901 totalled 7 tonnes, resulting in 16,733 grams of silver.

There is little information on the property, however, it is likely that the veins on it are extensions of the Capello vein system which consists of four or five parallel quartz-carbonate veins in faults cutting quartz monzonite of the Mount Carpenter stock. The veins strike 025 degrees, dipping 35 to 40 degrees to the northwest. Vein widths average 15 centimetres, but reach 90 centimetres, including brecciated wallrock. Mineralization within the veins consists of tetrahedrite, argentite, native silver and pyrite, with gold apparently associated with the pyrite.

The host Mount Carpenter stock is mainly composed of biotite hornblende quartz monzonite (GSC Open File 432) of Mesozoic to Tertiary age. The stock intrudes Triassic Slocan Group clastic sedimentary rocks which include phyllite, argillite, quartzite, tuffaceous rocks and minor limestone.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-827; 1901-1026; 1908-250; 1915-124
EMPR BC METAL MM01429
EMPR INDEX 3-215
GSC MEM 184
GSC OF 288, #316; 432; 464, #316

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