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MINFILE No  082FSE064
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name ROYAL CROWN, MOYIE RIVER MINING Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F040
Status Showing NTS Map 082F08E
Latitude 049º 19' 14'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 03' 57'' Northing 5463511
Easting 567887
Commodities Lead, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Royal Crown showing is located at the junction of the Moyie River and Ridgeway Creek (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1929). Small galena lenses in a pegmatite stringer or vein occur in a Moyie diorite intrusion within Aldridge Formation quartzites and argillites (Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup). At the quartzite-diorite contact a small patch of chalcopyrite-pyrite occurs.

Bibliography
EM GEOS MAP 1998-3
EMPR AR 1909-275; 1929-298; 1930-241
EMPR ASS RPT 8841
GSC MAP 603A
GSC MEM 228
GSC OF 929; 2721
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