MINFILE Mineral Inventory

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MINFILE No 082FSW334

File Created:	15-Feb-1989	by	Kathryn P.E. Andrews (KPA)
Last Edit:	12-Apr-1991	by	Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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		NMI
Name	JENNIE BELL, YMIR MINT, TOP, TOP - ERIC	Mining Division	Nelson
		BCGS Map	082F035
Status	Showing	NTS Map	082F06E
Latitude	049º 21' 27''	UTM	11 (NAD 83)
Longitude	117º 11' 08''	Northing	5467215
		Easting	486525
Commodities	Gold, Silver, Lead	Deposit Types	I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt	Omineca	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Jennie Bell showing is located 16 kilometres southeast of Nelson in a glacial basin. The claim was staked in 1911 and some ore was shipped that year with "80 sacks" of ore reportedly shipped in 1914.

The showing is hosted by Lower Jurassic Lower Elise Formation augite porphyry basalt flows and flow breccias near the contact with Jurassic Ymir Group sedimentary rocks on Mount Elise. The rocks are sheared in the vicinity of mineralized veins with foliation striking north-northwest and dipping steeply southwest. The veins, locally, follow the schistosity.

Gold, silver and lead occur in three narrow (approximately 15 centimetres wide) pyritic quartz veins. The vein exposed in the upper tunnel strikes 335 degrees and dips 65 degrees south. Two veins with intervening schist occur in the tunnel face. The footwall is pyritic schist and the hanging wall is pyritic greenstone schist. Both hanging wall and footwall to the veins are sheared with abundant chlorite alteration. Exploration in 1984 failed to located the Jennie Bell workings (Assessment Report 12754). The Ymir Mint vein is exposed on the opposite side of the basin from the Jennie Bell vein.

Several tonnes of material were shipped yielding 9.6 grams per tonne gold and 4895 grams per ton silver (Geological Survey of Canada Memoir 94, page 96).

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT *12754, 14760

EMPR BULL 41; 109

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

EMPR MAP 7685G; RGS 1977; 8480G

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

GSC MAP 51-4A; 1144A

GSC MEM *94, p. 96; 308

GSC OF 1195

GSC P 51-4

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

EMPR PFD 502151