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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  18-Sep-2007 by Mandy N. Desautels (MND)

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NMI 082K13 Ag8
Name MERIDIAN, MERIDIAN FR. (L.8713), EVA, OYSTER, CRITERION, CHOLLA, RED HORSE, LUCKY JACK, CONMORE, ST. JOE, IMPERIAL, CAMBORNE GOLD, LUCKY STRIKE Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082K072
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082K13E
Latitude 050º 47' 24'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 37' 10'' Northing 5626655
Easting 456338
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Meridian property consists of a consolidation of the Eva (082KNW066), Criterion-Oyster (082KNW065), Cholla (082KNW143), Lucky Jack (082KNW187), Red Horse (082KNW063), Conmore (082KNW047), St. Joe (082KNW046) and Imperial (082KNW186) claim groups. The property is situated on the southwest slopes of Lexington Mountain, northeast of Camborne near the confluence of Pool Creek and the Incomappleux River. The original access to the property was via a horse trail, following the cable tram line beginning at a log bridge crossing the canyon of Pool Creek at Camborne. Later a switchback road was constructed to the Eva workings from flats of the Incomappleux River directly below the mine. The road, trail and mine working are presently overgrown and in total disrepair.

Several gold-bearing quartz veins strike northwest within mestasediments of the Broadview Formation of the Lower Paleozoic Lardeau Group. See associated claim groups for details of workings.

Production from the various properties from 1903 to 1941 totalled 88,763 tonnes resulting in 543.9 kilograms of gold and 165.5 kilograms of silver.

Duval Corporation mapped and sampled the old workings in 1968. Madison Oils Limited optioned the property in 1978. Granges Exploration Ltd. optioned the property from Lucky Strike Resources Ltd. in 1987 and conducted surveys and sampling.

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK 1998, pp. 193-222
EMPR AR 1924-367; 1932-A181; 1933-A213; 1934-A30,E34; 1935-A27;
A30,E31,G51; 1936-E49; 1937-A40,E56; 1938-E22; 1939-38,78;
1940-25; 1941-26; 1956-100
EMPR ASS RPT 5172, 7013, 18232, 20054
EMPR BC METAL MM00601
EMPR BULL 45
EMPR EXPL 1975-E49
EMPR INDEX 3-205
EMPR MR MAP 2 (1928)
EMPR PF (Newton W. Emmens (1914): Sketch Map of Part of Lardeau Mining Division; Starr, C.C. (1933): Notes on the Meridian Mine; Agarwal,
R.G. (1974): Claims Map Camborne Gold Property; Emmens, N.W.
(1934): Report on the Meridian Mine; Gibson, S. (1935): Plan of
Workings; Langley, A.G. (1933): General Summary of Progress;
Warren, H.V. (1933): Meridian Mine; McDougall, B.W.W. (1934):
The Meridian Mine; Emmens, N.W. (1914): Report on the Mineral
Resources of the Lardeau Mining Division, in 082KNW General)
GSC MAP 235A
GSC MEM 161, pp. 35-40
GSC OF 288; 432; 464

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