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File Created: 21-Mar-1988 by Laura L. Coughlan (LLC)
Last Edit:  18-Nov-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name WINTERS GOLD, XR-1 Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 092H040
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08E
Latitude 049º 18' 56'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 01' 09'' Northing 5466811
Easting 716630
Commodities Gold, Silver, Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Winters Gold occurrence is 500 metres north of Winters Creek, 1.2 kilometres northeast of the creek's confluence with the Similkameen River and 6 kilometres southeast of Hedley.

The showing is hosted in a northeast-trending sequence of interbedded argillite, chert and limestone of the Ordovician to Triassic Apex Mountain Complex. Minor plagioclase porphyritic dacite is also present.

These rocks are cut by small shear zones containing disseminated sulphides. A chip sample from a small shear zone hosting pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite analysed 0.995 gram per tonne gold, 4.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.142 per cent copper, 0.0867 per cent arsenic and 28.25 per cent iron (Assessment Report 16400, page 18, sample 5365). A grab sample of silicified limestone (?) with 1 per cent disseminated pyrite, from a shear in interbedded chert and argillite, assayed 3.2 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 14879, sample WGR-1, assay certificate). Two rock samples taken in the vicinity analysed 6.58 and 6.8 grams per tonne gold, 1.2 and 0.8 grams per tonne silver, 0.007 and 0.005 per cent copper, and 0.05 and 0.145 per cent manganese, respectively (Assessment Report 14522, page 8, samples 3750E, 3751E).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 11186, *14522, *14879, 14963, *16400
EMPR EXPL 1982-176; 1985-C178; 1986-C210
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80
EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6
EMPR P 1989-3, pp. 19-35
GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 2; 243
GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80
GSC SUM RPT 1929, pp. 198A-252A
CIM TRANS Vol. 44, pp. 524-590
CJES Vol. 9, pp. 1632-1639
Milford, J.C., (1984): Geology of the Apex Mountain Group, North and East of the Similkameen River, South Central British Columbia, unpublished M.Sc. thesis, University of British Columbia

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