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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  11-Apr-2012 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI 103P5 Sia5
Name RAMBLER, RAMBLER QUARTZ Mining Division Skeena
BCGS Map 103P041
Status Past Producer NTS Map 103P05W
Latitude 055º 24' 28'' UTM 09 (NAD 83)
Longitude 129º 50' 48'' Northing 6140496
Easting 446391
Commodities Silica, Gold, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types I07 : Silica veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Stikine, Wrangell
Capsule Geology

The Rambler Quartz mine is located about 1.0 kilometre west of Granby Bay on Observatory Inlet, 2.5 kilometres southwest of Anyox. Quartz was mined between 1920 and 1924 as a source of silica flux for the copper smelter at Anyox (103P 021).

The region is underlain by a roof pendant, consisting of volcanic and sedimentary rocks, within the Eocene Coast Plutonic Complex. These rocks have been correlated with the Middle-Upper Jurassic Hazelton Group and the Middle Jurassic Bowser Lake Group. The volcanics consist of variably chloritized pillow and massive basalt with minor mafic tuffs. The overlying sediments consist of argillite, siltstone and sandstone with minor chert and limestone. There are two observable phases of folding in the area, an initial north-northeast trending phase followed by a later east-northeast trending phase.

The Rambler quartz vein is developed along a bedding plane in a steeply dipping sequence of argillite and wacke (grit). The vein strikes 034 degrees for at least 250 metres and dips 50 degrees northwest with a true width of 10 metres. The vein consists of milky white quartz mineralized with traces of pyrite, pyrrhotite and rare sphalerite. The most intensely mineralized portion of the vein assayed trace gold and silver (Property File - Bancroft, 1918, page 53).

The Rambler vein produced 107,712 tonnes of silica between 1920 and 1924. The quartz was reported to be barren of precious metals.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1916-K522; 1920-N46,N259; 1921-646,6271; 1922-N275; 1923-A50,A298; 1924-B50,B290
EMPR BULL 63
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, p. 215; 1988, pp. 233-240; 1990, pp. 235-243; 2005, pp. 1-4
EMPR MAP 8
EMPR OF 1986-2; 1987-15, p. 35; 1994-14
EMPR PF (*Bancroft, J.A. (1918): Report; Pell, J. (1982): Silica Prospects in the Anyox Area, B.C.; Alldrick, D., (1986): Anyox Map)
GSC MAP 307A; 1385A
GSC OF 864; 3453
Sharp, R.J. (1908): The Geology, Geochemistry & Sulphur Isotopes of the Anyox Massive Sulphide Deposits, University of Alberta, M.Sc. Thesis

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