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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-1996 by Jay W. Page (JWP)

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NMI
Name ML, SILVER SPOT NO. 4, SILVER SPOT LOC. 13 Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E056
Status Showing NTS Map 082E10W
Latitude 049º 31' 25'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 53' 48'' Northing 5487394
Easting 362737
Commodities Copper, Gold, Silver, Molybdenum Deposit Types I : VEIN, BRECCIA AND STOCKWORK
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Okanagan, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The ML showing is located 900 metres northeast of Collier Lake and approximately 6.75 kilometres southwest of Christian Valley.

The showing consists of copper and molybdenum mineralization exposed in 4 old pits, and in quartz veinlets in greenstone of the Carboniferous-Permian Anarchist Group. Eocene Coryell Intrusions of syenite and granite are found in the area.

In 1977, R.G. Turner prospected the old workings on the property and carried out an unsuccessful scintillometer survey. The old workings consist of four pits. Three are closely grouped together, and they expose chalcopyrite, bornite, molybdenite, malachite, azurite and magnetite mineralization in quartz veinlets. A grab sample collected from pit no. 1 assayed 0.2 gram per tonne gold, 4.1 grams per tonne silver, 1.2 per cent copper and 0.6 per cent molybdenum (Assessment Report 6310). The highest copper and molybdenum values were found where magnetite was abundant. A sample collected from the fourth pit, which lies 500 metres south of the main grouping of three pits, assayed 0.1 per cent copper (Assessment Report 6310).

Also included in the ML showing is an occurrence of quartz veins on the east side of Martin Lake approximately 1.5 kilometres to the northwest of pit no. 1. Minor amounts of chalcopyrite are found with magnetite and specularite at that location.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *6310
EMPR GEM 1977-E30
EMPR OF 1994-8
EMPR RGS 29
GSC MAP 6-1957; 1701A; 1712A; 1713A; 1714A; 1736A
GSC OF 409; 736; 1969
EMPR PFD 698

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