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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  15-Nov-1995 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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NMI 082K3 Pb3
Name VERA, (L.2835), KOOTENAY STAR (L.2836), DEMOCRAT (L.2837), KOOTENAY STAR FR. (L.2838), TREADWELL (L.2830) Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K005
Status Prospect NTS Map 082K03E
Latitude 050º 01' 20'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 07' 41'' Northing 5541109
Easting 490827
Commodities Lead, Gold, Silver, Zinc Deposit Types J01 : Polymetallic manto Ag-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Vera prospect is located on the east side of a south tributary of the Kaslo River, opposite Lyle Creek. Kaslo, British Columbia lies 23 kilometres to the east-southeast.

Underlying lithologies of the Vera prospect are slaty argillite and limestone of the Triassic Slocan Group. These rock types, striking 360 degrees and dipping at low angles up to 30 degrees, are cut by a quartz porphyry dike.

Workings at the Vera prospect consist of two adits roughly 15 vertical metres apart. In the lower adit, a series of fractures are exposed striking 210 degrees and dipping steeply to the northwest. Mineralization consists of massive pods of coarse-cubed galena where fracture fillings intersect a thick limestone bed. The upper adit, driven along a southwest trending 1.5 to 1.8 metre wide shear in overlying slates, contained no visible mineralization.

A sample from near the portal in 1926 yielded 1 gram per tonne gold, 2036 grams per tonne silver, 59.4 per cent lead and 3.6 per cent zinc (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1926, page 263).

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1926-263; 1928-305
GSC MAP 1667
GSC MEM *173, Map 273A; *184, p. 256
GSC OF 432; 464

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