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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 092K11 Au2
Name ENID - JULIE, ENID (L.280), JULIE (L.233), STELLA (L.281), JENNIE B (L.278), EMPRESS (L. 279), BULLUEKE POINT, KRISTINA, ALEXANDRIA, COMOX (L.296), DASEY (L.298), BEN GRID Mining Division Vancouver
BCGS Map 092K054
Status Past Producer NTS Map 092K11W
Latitude 050º 30' 10'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 125º 23' 34'' Northing 5597269
Easting 330321
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper, Zinc, Lead Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Enid-Julie occurrence is located on the west side of Phillips Arm, approximately 1.4 kilometres west-southwest of Bullveke Point. Three adits have been developed between elevations of 600 to 900 metres. The Alexandra property (MINFILE 092K 028) adjoins to the southeast and the Doratha Morton (MINFILE 092K 023) to the north west.

The area is underlain by a persistent band, greater than 12 kilometres long, of stratified metavolcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic Quatsino and Karmutsen formations (Vancouver Group). The band trends north- west and separates Jurassic to Cretaceous Coast Plutonic Complex rock of two different compositions, diorite and granodiorite.

The Enid-Julie straddles the sheared contact between diorite to the southwest and metamorphosed rocks to the northeast. The shear zone dips approximately 75 degrees to the southwest and locally truncates the contact. It can be traced from the Alexandria (MINFILE 092K 028) through the Enid-Julie and Doratha Morton (MINFILE 092K 023), and on to the Commonwealth-Champion (MINFILE 092K 025), for a distance of 6.5 kilometres.

On the Julie claim, a shaft and adit are located at 840 metres elevation and expose trace pyrite, and rare galena-bearing auriferous quartz veins. The veins are parallel to shear zone at the contact, and in the metamorphosed rocks on the northeast side. In 1981, a chip sample (20759) from the Julie adit, at 67.8 metres from the portal, assayed 0.9 grams per tonne gold and 2.1 grams per tonne silver over 1.8 metres (Assessment Report 10399).

The Enid adit is located at approximately 660 metres elevation and has been drifted for 86 metres. In 1980, a grab sample (1993) of quartz vein material with sulphides taken from the dump of the Enid adit assayed 135.7 grams per tonne gold, 551.9 grams per tonne silver, 1.72 per cent copper and 3.16 per cent zinc (Assessment Reports 8287).

The Empress shaft is located at 902 metres elevation and was dug to a depth of 4.6 metres, while the adit is reported at 840 metres. A grab sample of quartz vein material with sulphides taken from the dump of the Empress shaft assayed 3.3 grams per tonne gold and 7.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Reports 8287). In 1986, a grab sample (38809) of float outside the portal entrance assayed 132 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14466). In 1997, sample ED97-1 from a 2-metre thick quartz ledge at the Empress adit portal assayed 192.5 grams per tonne gold and 647 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 25321).

The Kristina adit is located at 715 metres elevation and approximately 100 metres west-northwest of the Enid adit. It has been drifted for a length of 9 metres. In 1986, samples assayed up to 0.70 gram per tonne gold and 3.2 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 14466).

The Comox adit is located at an elevation of 838 metres, approximately 200 metres northwest of the Empress adit. It has been driven for 46 metres at a bearing of 215 degrees. In 1997, a composite chip sample (C-0971) from the Comox adit assayed 2.19 grams per tonne gold and 7.5 grams per tonne (Assessment Report 25321). The distribution of gold in soils indicates that there are at least four subparallel, en echelon mineralized structures in the Ben grid (Comox adit) area, and the orientation of soil-gold trends indicate that they are arcuate, sub-vertical tension gashes. They are filled with quartz veins that contain shoots enriched in pyrite and fine-grained tellurides. Numerous quartz ledges and podiform bodies in outcrops of meta-andesite are located along soil gold trends.

In 1933, it is recorded that 62 grams of gold and 218 grams of silver were produced from 2 tonnes of ore. It is unknown from which working or on which claim the shipment was made.

The Enid (Lot 280), Julie (Lot 233), Jennie B. (Lot 276), and Stella (Lot 281) claims were Crown-granted in 1898 to W.A. Bauer. In 1918, the above claims were re-Crown granted, the Enid and Stella to W.R. Taylor, and the Julie and Jennie B. to T.N. Phillips. The adjacent Empress claim (L 279) was Crown granted to Alex Smith in 1921. Glasair Mining Corporation, Limited, incorporated September 1924, acquired the Julie and Jennie B. claims and the Doratha Morton property. In 1925, a 4.6 metre shaft was sunk and an 18.3 metre crosscut adit driven on the Julie claim. Glasord Mining Corporation Limited was incorporated in July 1925 to continue the exploration work. The Julie and Jennie B. claims were re-Crown granted in 1925 to R. Crowe-Swords, president of the company. Work was suspended in 1926. The Enid and Stella claims were re-Crown-granted in 1926 to W.A. Glasgow. In 1928, Morton Woolsey Consolidated Mines Limited purchased Clasair Mining for 2,500,000 shares. Apparently no work other than prospecting was done on the Enid-Julie in subsequent years. Enid-Julie Mines Limited was incorporated in 1933 to continue the development work. During 1934, the new 238-metre level crosscut adit was driven approximately 91 metres, some 150 to 215 metres short of its objective, which was to get under the shaft showing; work was suspended in July 1934.

In 1976, Envoy Resources completed a soil sampling program. In 1980, Corpac Minerals Limited optioned the Alexandra group and the adjacent Enid-Julie property. Work by Corpac in 1980 included a geochemical soil survey (105 samples) and rock sampling. The following year, a program of geological mapping and soil sampling was completed. This work traced the mineralized Doratha Morton (MINFILE 092K 023) vein south east along strike to the Enid-Julie adits and identified quartz veins along strike to the northwest.

In November 1982, Charlemagne Resources Ltd. optioned 17 reverted Crown grants. Work in 1983 included 576 metres of underground development and 482 metres of underground diamond drilling in five holes. Falconbridge Limited entered into an agreement with Charlemagne and in 1985 and 1986 carried out geochemical surveys comprising 1687 soil and 440 rock samples, airborne magnetometer and electro-magnetic surveys over 300 kilometres, and a ground electromagnetic survey over 200 kilometres on the Alexandra and adjacent ground. A geophysical anomaly was found some 5 kilometres to the northwest on the Commonwealth claims (MINFILE 092K 025).

The area was prospected as the Cordero property in 1991 and 1992 by Ripple Creek Resources. In 1996 and 1997 Norwood Resources conducted ground electromagnetic and magnetic surveys, soil geochemical surveys, prospecting, trenching and road building on the property. The soil survey on the adjacent Ben claims on the Alexander property tests the area between the Dorotha Morton Mine (MINFILE 092K 023) and the Enid-Julie workings (MINFILE 092K 024). The purpose was to determine if the Dorotha Morton gold trend continues into the Alexandria property.

During 1997 through 2000, Thurlow Resources conducted exploration programs on the area, renamed the DM and Picton properties, on the HY, LO and FILL 2-19 claims. The programs consisted of soil sampling, rock sampling and geological mapping. In 2008, Cuda Capital completed a 561.4 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1197; 1918-474; 1921-348; 1925-276,279,450; 1926-310,450; 1928-381; 1929-387; 1933-254; 1934-F8; 1936-F61
EMPR BC METAL MM00193
EMPR BULL 1, 1932, p. 139; 20, 1940, Part IV, p. 13
EMPR EXPL 1980-266; 1981-2805; 1983-327; 1985-228
EMPR GEM 1976-126
EMPR INDEX 3-195
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EMR MP CORPFILE (Glasair Mining Corporation, Limited; Glasord Mining Corporation, Limited; Morton Woolsey Consolidated Mines, Limited; Enid-Julie Mines, Limited; Corpac Minerals Ltd.)
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GSC MEM 23, 146 pp.
GSC OF 480
GCNL #81,#129, 1985; Dec.19, 1986
IPDM Sept., 1985
NAGMIN Oct.11, 1985
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Ostler, J. (2007-06-18): The Thurlow Property and the Doratha Morton Gold Trend Crown-granted Mineral Claims
EMPR PFD 11811, 520340

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