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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  09-Jun-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BLUE STONE, FIX, SIWASH SILVER Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H079
Status Showing NTS Map 092H16W
Latitude 049º 46' 48'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 20' 28'' Northing 5517563
Easting 691412
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

This occurrence outcrops atop a ridge, 750 metres southwest of the confluence of Siwash and Galena creeks and 37.5 kilometres north-northeast of Princeton.

The Blue Stone showing occurs in an 8-metre wide breccia zone in granite of the Middle Jurassic Osprey Lake batholith, immediately south of a northwest-trending body of quartz porphyritic monzonite/granite of the early Tertiary Otter intrusions.

A quartz vein, 2.5 to 10 centimetres wide, strikes 100 degrees and dips 77 degrees north. An adit, 50 metres long, intersected the vein 15 metres below a series of opencuts. The vein is mineralized with tetrahedrite and pyrite, and the occasional grain of galena and sphalerite. Abundant azurite occurs on the vein in the old workings.

The showing was explored by F. Barber and W. Cunningham in 1927.

The area has been explored in conjunction with the nearby Snowstorm (MINFILE 092HNE032) occurrence and completed exploration history can be found there.

Bibliography
EMPR AR *1927-248
EMPR ASS RPT 1800, 7547, 7992, 8696, 8926, 15863, 18211, 19472
EMPR EXPL 1979-159,160; 1980-210
EMPR GEM 1969-280
GSC MAP 888A; 889A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243, p. 109
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 91-2, pp. 87-107
Besserer, D.J. (2007-05-27): Technical report on the precious and base metal potential of the Siwash Creek Property
Besserer, D.J. (2008-06-12): Technical report on the precious and base metal potential of the Siwash Creek Property
Besserer, D.J. (2010-08-30): Technical report on the precious and base metal potential of the Siwash Creek Property
Moroney, D.M. (2012-06-04): Technical Report on the Siwash Creek and River Wild Properties

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