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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Jul-2008 by Sarah Meredith-Jones (SMJ)

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NMI
Name WHITE EAGLE, AMBER Mining Division Slocan
BCGS Map 082K025
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082K06E
Latitude 050º 17' 32'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 117º 09' 33'' Northing 5571134
Easting 488662
Commodities Silver, Gold, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The White Eagle occurrence is located at the head of Cascade Creek at 2175 metres elevation above sea level in the Slocan Mining Division. The occurrence is about 500 metres north of Blue Lake.

Regionally, the area lies within the Selkirk Mountains of southeastern British Columbia. The occurrence is within the Kootenay Arc, a curving belt of highly deformed metasedimentary and metavolcanic rocks which includes the Upper Proterozoic Horsethief Creek Group, the Upper Proterozoic to Lower Cambrian Hamill Group, the Lower Cambrian Badshot Formation, and the Paleozoic Lardeau and Milford groups. The volcano-sedimentary sequence is intruded by numerous Paleozoic to Mesozoic granitoid plutons and has been metamorphosed to at least middle greenschist facies before the emplacement of the mineralization.

The White Eagle property is underlain by andesite, sandstone, siltstone and phyllite which forms the lower portion of the Broadview Formation of the Lardeau Group. The rocks have been folded in a series of northwest-trending folds that were subsequently thrusted in a northeasterly direction along local faults (Geological Survey of Canada Bulletin 193).

The White Eagle occurrence consists of quartz veins containing massive sulphide pods 0.6 metre wide and 5 metres long. The quartz veins have been exposed in two adits, an incline shaft and a winze in the upper adit.

A weighted average of 42 channel samples taken from the main vein in the upper adit yielded 14.88 per cent lead, 7.58 per cent zinc, 298 grams per tonne silver and 6.5 grams per tonne gold. The main vein within the upper adit has an average width of 40 centimetres and dips 48 degrees northeast which is subparallel to the enclosing carbonaceous siltstone of the Broadview Formation. Mineralization is unevenly distributed throughout the vein with the higher grades being associated with pods of massive sulphides that appear to plunge to the north. Silver values are highest within the galena-sphalerite rich portions of the massive sulphide while gold is associated with pyrite in the lower portion of the massive sulphide ore shoot (see Noonday, 082KSW127 - Prospectus, Ambergate Exploration Inc., 1988).

In 1928, eight tonnes of ore were mined from the property to produce 6158 grams of silver, 2667 kilograms of lead, 1809 kilograms of zinc and 93 grams of gold.

During 1987 and 1988 Ambergate Explorations conducted an exploration program which consisted of 1:10000 scale mapping, a soil survey, and trenching on their Amber 1-4 claims in which the White Eagle showing is located. A follow-up to the 87-88 exploration program was done in 1994 by Lumby Resources Corporation, an optionee of Kenrich Mining Corporation, formerly Ambergate Explorations. This program extended the soil survey in the White Eagle, West Ridge (082KSW197), and Juno (082KSW125) showing areas (Assessment Report 23669).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1903-244; 1921-347; 1927-285; 1928-307; *1929-327; 1930-257
EMPR ASS RPT 16433, *18136, 23418, 23669
EMPR BC METAL MM01460
EMPR INDEX 3-218
EMPR PF (See Noonday, 082KSW127 - Tully, D.W., November 1987,
Geological Report on the Amber Property in Prospectus, Ambergate
Exploration Inc., February 2, 1988)
GSC BULL 193
GSC MAP 235A; 1277A
GSC MEM 161
GSC OF 288; 432; 464
EMPR PFD 4365

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