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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name FLORENCE, PAYMASTER, MOON, SUN, CRANBERRY RIDGE, SUN AND MOON, DAD Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E045
Status Prospect NTS Map 082E06E
Latitude 049º 27' 51'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 04' 59'' Northing 5481143
Easting 349066
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Florence showing is located at 991 metres elevation, 3.25 kilometres north of Beaverdell, British Columbia (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1937, Part D - Special Report by M.S. Hedley). The showing is located on the former Florence and Paymaster Crown grants.

In 1937, the Florence and Paymaster Crown grants were owned by T.W. Hoyes and associates. Development consisted of an old 33.5-metre adit at 991 metres elevation driven along 075 degrees at the end of a 5.5-metre opencut. During 2007 through 2009, Intigold Gold Mines Ltd. completed programs of rock and soil sampling and am airborne geophysical survey on the area as the Beaverdell property.

The hostrock of the Florence showing is quartz diorite of the Jurassic Westkettle batholith. For a more detailed description of the regional geology refer to the Carmi occurrence (082ESW029).

The adit was driven along the footwall of a 43 to 76 centimetre wide quartz vein which dips 85 degrees south. The vein is offset by a branching crosscut fault 3 metres from the portal and follows intense shearing with clay, chlorite and gouge. Nine metres from the hangingwall, another thin quartz vein follows the hangingwall of an irregular andesite dike that dips steeply south. In 1980, sample 15658 of concentrated sulphides in a quartz vein yielded 13.64 grams per tonne gold, 15.77 grams per tonne silver, 0.05 per cent lead, 0.36 per cent zinc and 0.08 per cent copper (Assessment Report 8916). The first 23 metres of the adit appears to have intersected the majority of sulphide mineralization.

At the adit face, a fault with gouge contains several centimetres of brecciated quartz. Mineralization consists of pyrite with small amounts of galena, sphalerite, arsenopyrite, chalcopyrite and bornite. A 45-centimetre wide quartz vein was found about one metre from the adit portal. The vein is exposed over 1.5 metres length, containing oxidized pyrite and malachite. A sample from the adit dump yielded 0.68 gram per tonne gold and 404.6 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1937, Part D - Special Report by M.S. Hedley). Another sample (15659) of dump material taken in 1980 yielded 36.14 grams per tonne gold, 69.60 grams per tonne silver, 7.94 per cent lead, 4.34 per cent zinc and 0.65 per cent copper (Assessment Report 8916).

About 61 metres from the adit and 45.7 metres higher in elevation, is an opencut exposing a 31-centimetre wide quartz vein. The vein strikes 075 degrees.

A zone of quartz on the hangingwall and footwall of an andesite dike was found 152 metres north of the adit. The zone is 45 to 91 centimetres wide, strikes 315 degrees and dips 75 degrees northeast. Minor mica and pyrite are associated with the quartz. Two other veins have been discovered 213 and 335 metres north of the adit, respectively. Each vein is 20 to 30 centimetres wide, strikes northeast to east and dips 75 degrees southerly. The veins are mineralized with pyrite.

In 2009, two chip samples (F-BDRL17 and F-BDRL19) of quartz-carbonate veins assayed 11.910 and 5.060 grams per tonne gold, 13.7 and 20.2 grams per tonne silver, 0.189 and 0.180 per cent copper, 0.186 and 1.050 per cent lead with 0.738 and 1.010 per cent zinc over 20 and 39 centimetres, respectively (Gray, P.D. (2010-05-28): Technical Report on the Beaverdell Property).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1937-Part D (Special Report by M. S. Hedley)
EMPR ASS RPT 7970, *8916, 24465
EMPR OF 1989-5
GSC MAP 538A; 539A; 37-21; 15-1961; 1736A
GSC MEM 79, pp. 89,92,120-122
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969
GSC P 37-21
Kenyon, J.M. (1978): Mo and U mineralization with special reference
to a Mo-(U) Deposit at Carmi, British Columbia. M.Sc. Thesis,
University of Alberta, 118 pp.
*Gray, P.D. (2010-05-28): Technical Report on the Beaverdell Property

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