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MINFILE No 082FSW172

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File Created:	24-Jul-1985	by	BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:	04-Apr-2022	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI
Name	GREAT EASTERN (L.4152), GREAT WESTERN, ABERDEEN	Mining Division	Nelson
		BCGS Map	082F044
Status	Past Producer	NTS Map	082F06W
Latitude	049º 26' 06''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 18' 13''	Northing	5475859
		Easting	477987
Commodities	Gold, Silver	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Great Eastern occurrence is located 12.8 kilometres south of Nelson on Toad Mountain.

The area is underlain by augite basalt flows, breccia flows and subvolcanic intrusions of the Lower Jurassic Elise Formation , Rossland Group. These have been intruded by plagioclase porphyry of the Late (?) to Middle Jurassic Silver King Porphyry. Shearing and metamorphism is common in the area. Regionally, schists are host to northwest trending shears, parallel to foliation, which host quartz veins with sulphides.

No geological description of the occurrence is available except that the claim contains a quartz vein, about 20 to 25 centimetres wide, which assayed 19.2 grams per tonne gold and 6.86 grams per tonne silver (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1954, page A125). The showing is likely similar to the Silver King occurrence (082FSW176). Production was 34 tonnes yielding 1,276 grams of gold and 1,774 grams of silver.

Work History

This showing has been worked in conjunction with the Irene (082FSW171) and Great Western (082FSW333) showings. Minor production is recorded for this claim which was Crown granted in 1900.

In 2001 and 2002, Apex completed programs of soil sampling and rock sampling on the area. A sample from the D vein yielded 119.30 grams per tonne gold and 20.9 grams per tonne silver.

In 2017, Prize Mining completed a program of geological mapping, prospecting, geochemical (rock and soil) sampling, a ground magnetic survey, 1180 metres of trenching, environmental (water) sampling and 18 diamond drill holes, totalling 2694.77 metres, on the area as the Daylight property. Drilling on the Great Eastern and Great Western occurrences yielded intercepts including 1.16 grams per tonne gold over 32.60 metres in hole DL17005 and 1.09 and 1.00 grams per tonne gold over 71.22 and 19.0 metres, respectively, in hole DL17007 (Moose Mountain Technical Services [2021-07-19]: NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties).

Bibliography

EMPR AR 1900-983; 1934-A27; 1935-A27; 1939-38,80; *1954-124

EMPR ASS RPT 8614, 14586, 14722, 19492, 19503, 20063, 37536, 39100, 39883

EMPR BC METAL MM01009

EMPR BULL 41, 109

EMPR EXPL 1980-65,66; 1986-C57,C58

EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 149-158; 1981, pp. 28-32, pp. 176-186; 1987, pp. 19-30; 1988, pp. 33-43; 1989, pp. 247-249; 1990, pp. 291-300; 2002, pp. 113-151

EMPR MAP 7685G; RGS 1977; 8480G

EMPR OF 1988-1; *1989-11; 1991-16

GSC MAP 52-13A; 1090A; 1091A

GSC MEM 308

GSC OF 1195

GSC P 52-13

Andrew, K.P.E. and Hoy, T. (1990): Structural Models for Precious Metal Deposits in Jurassic Arc Volcanic rocks of the Rossland Group, southeastern B.C.; abstract with program, G.A.C. - M.A.C. Annual Meeting, Vancouver, B.C., p. A3

Hoy, T. and Andrew, K.P.E. (1988): Geology, geochemistry and mineral deposits of the Lower Jurassic Rossland Group, southeastern British Columbia; abstract in Twelfth District 6 Meeting, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, Fernie, B.C., pp. 11-12 REL Sultan Minerals Inc., September 25, 2002

*Moose Mountain Technical Services (2021-07-19): NI 43-101 Resource Estimate for the Kena and Daylight Properties

EMPR PFD 650036