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File Created: 02-Feb-1996 by Maurice Colpron (MC)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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Name UPPER MONTGOMERY Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082M059
Status Showing NTS Map 082M09E
Latitude 051º 33' 20'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 19' 18'' Northing 5712435
Easting 408373
Commodities Copper, Zinc Deposit Types G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

A disseminated sulphide bearing horizon crops out high above Montgomery Lake on the east-trending divide between Goldstream River and Downie Creek.

The sulphide horizon is hosted by rusty wearthering thinly foliated actinolite schist and siliceous schist/metachert which form the hangingwall of a metadiorite sill 1 to 3 metres thick. The horizon can be traced for approximately 500 metres in a sequence of interlayered graphitic pelite, marble and micaceous quartzite which is coarsening upward. The sequence above the sulphide horizon consists of clean quartzite, mica schist and marble. The latter hosts the lead-zinc mineralization of the KJ showing.

The Upper Montgomery sulphide horizon has a prominent electromagnetic signature. It was sampled near its eastern and western ends and analyses returned low base and precious metal values, but elevated manganese.

Diamond drilling in 1994 tested the eastern end of this zone. Drillhole 94-2 interesected two semimassive pyrrhotite zones separated by 26 metres of interlayered greenstone, dark graphitic pelite and carbonate units. The upper (3.8 metres) and the lower (3.2 metres) zones returned trace to insignificant copper values. Drillhole 94-3, collared 100 metres north-northwest of 94-2, intersected only the upper sulphide zone. Analysed samples returned trace amounts of copper (Fieldwork 1994, page 235).

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK *1994, pp. 215-241
EMPR OF 1995-2;1999-2
EMPR PFD 860904

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