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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  12-Feb-1991 by Brian Grant (BG)

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Name EUREKA, REX (L.15131) Mining Division Nelson
BCGS Map 082F015
Status Showing NTS Map 082F03E
Latitude 049º 08' 57'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 06' 09'' Northing 5444043
Easting 492525
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Eureka is a well defined, narrow fissure trending 55 degrees with a vertical dip. The fissure contains a narrow vein of white quartz with minor disseminated pyrite, a very little limonite and a high gold content. The vein crosscuts hard, white quartzites of the Lower Cambrian Quartzite Range Formation (correlative with rocks of the Hamill Group) where they are exposed on the eastern limb of the Eastern anticline of the Sheep Creek camp. The fissure is crosscut and slightly offset by a fault containing a diorite porphyry dyke which is 6 metres thick. A second, smaller dyke is also reported. At least 100 metres of underground work occurred on the property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1940-69; 1946-147
EMPR BULL 1; 31, pp. 35,66,74; 41; 109
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43
EMPR OF 1988-1; 1989-11
GSC MAP 50-19A; *299A; 1090A; 1091A; *1145A
GSC MEM *172, p. 46; 308
GSC OF 1195
EMPR PFD 2938, 2939

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