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File Created: 19-Nov-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  19-Nov-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name HEDLEY STAR Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 092H040
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08E
Latitude 049º 18' 35'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 01' 16'' Northing 5466157
Easting 716515
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Okanagan
Capsule Geology

The Hedley Star showing outcrops on Winters Creek, 0.7 to 0.9 kilometre east of the Similkameen River, 6.7 kilometres southeast of Hedley.

The area in the vicinity of Winters Creek is underlain by a sequence of interbedded sediments and volcanics of the Ordovician to Triassic Apex Mountain Complex. This sequence is intruded from the west by granodiorite of the Middle Jurassic Cahill Creek pluton.

Various outcrops of argillite, greenstone and limestone occur along Winters Creek in the vicinity of the showing. A rock sample taken from an outcrop of argillite contained 0.69 gram per tonne gold, 6.0 grams per tonne silver, greater than 1 per cent copper, 0.4470 per cent zinc and greater than 1 per cent arsenic (Assessment Report 14522, Appendix, sample 3762E). A second sample taken on Winters Creek, 150 metres west-northwest of the previous sample assayed 1.1 grams per tonne gold (sample 3753E).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14522, 14879, 14963, 16400
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80
EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6
EMPR P 1989-3, pp. 19-35
GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 2; 243
GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80
EMPR PFD 503088

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