MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082LSW008

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	31-Mar-1993	by	Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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		NMI
Name	MOUNT VERNON, SILVER STREAK, PROCTER, VI, DCK, NOMAD	Mining Division	Vernon
		BCGS Map	082L025
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082L06E
Latitude	050º 17' 20''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	119º 10' 42''	Northing	5573021
		Easting	344830
Commodities	Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Mount Vernon showing is located 7 kilometres east-northeast of Vernon, north of Vernon Hill.

This area, east of the Okanagan Valley fault, is underlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group which unconformably overlies the Devonian to Triassic Harper Ranch Group. These Paleozoic and Mesozoic units overlie and are in probable fault contact with gneissic rocks of unknown age and metasedimentary rocks of the Proterozoic Silver Creek Formation. Middle Jurassic granitic rocks cut all of the above rocks. Outliers of Eocene Kamloops Group volcanic and sedimentary rocks cap the older units.

Quartz veins in Nicola Group carbonaceous argillites host silver, lead, zinc and gold mineralization. Narrow discontinuous quartz veins, up to about 1 metre thick, contain knots and blebs of galena and lesser blebs of sphalerite. In 1950 and 1969, two shipments, totalling 64 tonnes, reported grades of 190 grams per tonne silver, 3.8 per cent lead, 0.8 per cent zinc and 2 grams per tonne gold.

In 1968-74, King Graybarr Mines Ltd. carried out trenching, geological mapping, airborne magnetometer and drilling programs. In 1975, Canadian Superior Exploration Ltd. conducted geological mapping and drilling. Murray Ranking Developments Ltd. carried out trenching in 1978.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1950-115; 1968-223

EMPR ASS RPT 2000, *5003, 5432, *5830, *12097

EMPR BC METAL MM00434, MM00429

EMPR EXPL 1975-E53, 1978-E95,96; 1983-146

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363

EMPR GEM 1969-298,429; 1971-432,433; 1972-80; 1973-101; 1974-90

EMPR INDEX 3-206

EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G

EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30

EMPR RGS 1976

EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966; Working Maps from Canadian Superior 1970-1975; King Greybarr Mines Ltd., Prospectus, 1970; Selnes, W.E. (1971): Supplemental Report to Accompany Preliminary Report on the Vernon Hill claims; Notices of Work, May and July, 1975; Assay Results, Canadian Superior, 1975; Kandahar Resources Ltd., Statement of Material Facts, Aug. 1976)

GSC MAP 1712A

GSC MEM 296

GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167

GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60

GCNL #156, #200, 1976

EMPR PFD 4523, 4524, 4525, 4526, 4527, 4528, 4529, 4530, 4531, 4532, 4533, 4534, 4535, 4536, 4537, 4538, 4539, 4540, 4541, 4542, 4543, 4544, 823394