MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 092HSE108

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	06-Nov-1991	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	ILE	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H039
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H08E
Latitude	049º 22' 03''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 14' 02''	Northing	5471990
		Easting	700816
Commodities	Silver, Copper, Zinc	Deposit Types	L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The ILE showing is situated on the north bank of Smith Creek, 11.5 kilometres west of Hedley.

The showing is hosted in a sequence of andesite ash and lapilli tuff of the Upper Triassic Whistle Creek Formation (Nicola Group), several hundred metres south of granodiorite and quartz monzonite of the Early Jurassic Bromley batholith.

Two zones of mineralization have been identified. An area of fine disseminated pyrrhotite in altered volcanics contains silver values of between 3 and 18 grams per tonne (Property File - Cukor, 1972, page 17). A second zone of strongly pyritized volcanics contains some chalcopyrite and sphalerite.


Bibliography	EMPR ASS RPT 2927, 3559 EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80 EMPR GEM 1970-387; 1971-273; 1972-124 EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6 EMPR PF (Cukor, V. (1972): Engineering Report on Ile and Vent Mineral Claims, in Kariba Mines Ltd. (1972): Prospectus, Vancouver Stock Exchange) GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 889A; 41-1989 GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80 EMPR PFD 650170, 8927, 812526