MINFILE Mineral Inventory

MINFILE Record Summary

MINFILE No 082ESE258

File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	22-Jul-2020	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	GREAT LAXEY (L.1425S), TWIN MINE (L.1426S)	Mining Division	Greenwood
		BCGS Map	082E018
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082E02E
Latitude	049º 07' 55''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	118º 34' 59''	Northing	5443330
		Easting	384520
Commodities	Copper, Silver, Gold	Deposit Types	I06 : Cu+/-Ag quartz veins
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Great Laxey is located south of Eholt Creek, 4 kilometres southwest of Eholt.

The large body of quartz, carrying copper, gold and silver was reported discovered on the Great Laxey in 1898. The Great Laxey (Lot 1425s) and adjacent Twin Mine (Lot 1426s) claims were Crown granted in 1912 to A. Hamilton.

The area is underlain by greenstone and marble of the Upper Paleozoic Knob Hill Group. These rocks are cut by granodiorites of the Jurassic-Cretaceous Wallace Creek Pluton.

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1911-291; 1912-326

EMPR OF 1990-25

EMPR P 1986-2

EMPR GEOLOGY 1979, pp. 1-13

EMPR MR MAP 6 (1932)

EMPR AEROMAG MAP 8497G

GSC OF 481; 637; 1969

GSC P 67-42; 79-29

GSC MAP 828; 6-1957; 10-1967; 1500A; 1736A

Basque, Garnet (1992): Ghost Towns & Mining Camps of the Boundary

Country; Sunfire Publications Limited, p. 116.

Ball, M. (2017-01-26): Technical Report on the Greenwood Area Property

Cowley, P. (2017-06-02): Updated Preliminary Economic Assessment on

the Greenwood Precious Metals Project