MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082ESE009

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	25-May-2006	by	Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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		NMI
Name	ARGO, MAMONT (L.879)	Mining Division	Greenwood
		BCGS Map	082E007
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082E02E
Latitude	049º 04' 48''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	118º 40' 40''	Northing	5437705
		Easting	377482
Commodities	Copper, Gold, Silver, Lead, Zinc	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Argo is underlain by granodiorite of the Greenwood Pluton and greenstone of the Upper Paleozoic Knob Hill Group. Quartz veins, varying from 5 to 90 centimetres wide, striking about 25 degrees northeast, occur in the rocks. Low grade copper ore was found in the Argo tunnel, but was not mined at that time. Pyrite, galena, sphalerite and chalcopyrite are associated with gold and silver

A vein was struck on the Argo claim in 1914 by the Argo Mining and Tunnel Company Limited. By 1917 the tunnel had been driven a distance of about 550 metres at a depth of about 183 metres from the surface. The tunnel was commenced in, or just prior to, 1909 by Olie Lofstad, president of the company, in order to strike the adjacent Starveout (082ESE008) and Barbara (082ESE007) veins.

It was reported in 1928 that the Hercules Consolidated Mining, Smelting, and Power Corporation, Limited had cleaned out the old Argo tunnel


Bibliography	EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G EMPR AR 1909-130; 1910-121; 1912-167; 1913-141,163; 1914-334; 1916-253; 1917-213; 1928-248 EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932) EMPR OF 1990-25 EMPR P 1986-2 EMPR PRELIM MAP 59 GSC MAP 828; 45-20A; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A GSC OF 481; 637; 1969 GSC P 67-42; 79-29 EMPR PFD 1069