MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082N 059

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	15-Sep-1993	by	George Owsiacki (GO)

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		NMI	082N4 Ag4
Name	BLUE BELL	Mining Division	Revelstoke
		BCGS Map	082N012
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082N04E
Latitude	051º 10' 32''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 44' 06''	Northing	5669604
		Easting	448621
Commodities	Lead, Silver	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Kootenay

Capsule Geology

The Blue Bell showing is located 1.6 kilometres southeast of Illecillewaet Station of the Canadian Pacific Railway, about 42 kilometres east-northeast of Revelstoke.

The showing is underlain by carbonaceous limy slate, limestone, siltstone and quartzite of the Lower Cambrian and younger Lardeau Group. A shaft and tunnel explore a quartz vein 0.9 metre wide mineralized with argentiferous galena.

A 4.5-tonne shipment of ore was made to England in 1899.


Bibliography	EMPR AR 1893-1050; 1896-540; *1899-677 EMPR PF (82N General File - Canadian Superior Exploration geochemistry maps, 82N/4E,4W, 1976) GSC MAP 4-1961; 43-1962 GSC OF 481 GSC P 62-32 EMPR PFD 860906, 860907, 860908, 860909