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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  13-Nov-2024 by Del Ferguson (DF)

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NMI 092J16 Cu1
Name BROKEN HILL Mining Division Lillooet
BCGS Map 092J089
Status Prospect NTS Map 092J16W
Latitude 050º 48' 14'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 18' 20'' Northing 5628247
Easting 548934
Commodities Silver, Gold, Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Bridge River, Methow
Capsule Geology

The BROKEN HILL polymetallic vein is on the west side of Sebring Creek, approximately three kilometres north of Carpenter Lake and 39 kilometres east of Gold Bridge, B.C.

The prospect is within argillite, slate, quartzite and chert with andesite and basalt; all are phyllitic and highly altered. These rocks are part of the Mississippian to Jurassic Bridge River Complex (Group). The sedimentary rocks are cut by granodiorite of the Eocene Mission Ridge pluton and Tertiary porphyritic rhyolite.

An area 18 metres wide and continuous for at least 500 metres contains veins, lenses and disseminations of pyrite, galena, sphalerite, chalcopyrite and malachite. The rocks are brecciated, fractured and siliceous and comprise part of the regionally important Marshall Creek fault zone.

A best assay, obtained from the upper of two adit portals, graded 709.0 grams per tonne silver, 0.14 grams per tonne gold, 1.03 per cent copper, 3.83 per cent lead and 2.05 per cent zinc. An average of assays across 18 metres of silicification is 48.3 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11457).

In 1913, upper and lower adits were driven in an oxidized, sheared and copper-stained rhyolite dike. Undocumented works followed in the area, then in 1983 Quinto Mining Ltd. undertook a program of underground mapping and chip sampling, as well as soil and rock sampling. In 1988, Hera Resources Inc. re-mapped the adits and conducted further soil sampling (Assessment Report 19106).

In 2020 Saxifrage Geological Services Ltd. conducted rock sampling to determine the petrochemistry of the rhyolite dike and also obtained several silt samples from the area to confirm previous RGS sampling (Assessment Report 39909).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1914-270; 1915-372, 1916-473
EMPR ASS RPT *11457, *19106, 39909
EMPR FIELDWORK 1974, p. 35; 1985, pp. 303-310; 1986, pp. 23-29; 1987,
pp. 93-130; 1988, pp. 105-152; 1989, pp. 45-72; 1990, pp. 75-83
EMPR OF 1987-11; 1988-3; 1989-4; 1990-10
EMPR PF (Report by A.R. Allen, 1971; Prospectus, Helgena Mines Ltd., 1971)
EMPR PFD 11536, 11537
GSC OF 482
GSC P 77-2 (Sample GSC 76-50)
GEOSCIENCE BC 2010-4, 2017-08
N MINER June 30, 1983

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