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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  31-Mar-1993 by Discovery Consultants (DISC)

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Name KLONDYKE, BEAU Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L023
Status Showing NTS Map 082L06W
Latitude 050º 15' 02'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 28' 34'' Northing 5569423
Easting 323478
Commodities Copper, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Klondyke showing is located 14 kilometres west of Vernon, on the west side of Okanagan Lake.

In this area, Devonian to Triassic sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Harper Ranch Group are unconformably overlain by Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group sedimentary and volcanic rocks. These units are intruded by Middle Jurassic granitic rocks informally named the Terrace Creek batholith. Eocene Penticton Group volcanic rocks overlie the igneous and sedimentary rocks.

Quartz veins within granodiorite near the contact with argillite and marble of the Harper Ranch host copper and gold mineralization. The irregular quartz-calcite veins occur in an area of fracturing, brecciation and chlorite and silica alteration. The veins are up to 1 metre thick and carry minor disseminated pyrite, chalcopyrite and "gold values".

By 1899, two shafts, 15 and 2.5 metres deep, had been sunk. In 1986, Tournigan Mining Exploration Ltd. carried out geological mapping.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1130; *1899-746
EMPR ASS RPT 14905
EMPR EXPL 1986-C98
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 355-363
EMPR MAP 7216G, 8513G
EMPR OF 1989-5, 1990-30
EMPR PF (In 082LSW General - Claim Map, 1966)
EMPR RGS 1976
GSC MAP 46-7, 48-4A, 1059A, 1712A
GSC MEM 296, p. 146
GSC OF 637 (Map C), 736, 2167
GSC P 89-1E pp. 51-60
GSC SUM RPT 1931A, p. 77

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