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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Mar-2012 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082M1 Zn3
Name LITTLE SLIDE, MCCALLUM Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082M030
Status Showing NTS Map 082M01E
Latitude 051º 13' 10'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 03' 54'' Northing 5674767
Easting 425623
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Silver, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The showing is located at the head of La Forme Creek, approximately 29 kilometres north east of Revelstoke. The showing is located at an altitude of, approximately, 1710 metres.

In 1959 the old trail along the east fork of the La Forme Creek was cleaned out, side trails to the showings were built, and several small open-cuts were made. In 2008-2010, Rich River Exploration Ltd. performed a series of geochemical and geological surveys of showing as apart of their Allco-Redtop-Slide Project.

The showing is underlain by grey-banded limestone, light-grey massive dolomite and green and grey phyllite.

Five or six white quartz veins, 6 to 9 metres apart, are mineralized with galena, sphalerite and small amounts of chalcopyrite. The veins transect the calcareous rocks and strike northeasterly with steep dips to the northwest. The largest is 3 metres thick at the widest point thinning in both directions to a lens 15 metres long. Sulphides occur as irregular clusters with erratic distribution in the quartz.

In 2010, a sample of mineralized vein returned 340.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.26 per cent copper, 21.02 per cent lead and 2.0 per cent zinc across 1 metre (Assessment Report 32051).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1900-809; 1917-151-152; *1959-118
EMPR ASS RPT 5724, 6522, 32051, 30804
EMPR EXPL 1975-E56; 1977-E86
GSC MAP 12-1964
GSC P 84-32, p. 30
GSC SUM RPT 1929, Part A, p. 190
EMPR PFD 680297

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