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File Created: 28-Feb-2001 by Ron McMillan (RHM)
Last Edit:  28-Feb-2001 by Ron McMillan (RHM)

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NMI
Name MONA Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 092P029
Status Showing NTS Map 092P08E
Latitude 051º 16' 19'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 14' 04'' Northing 5683700
Easting 692905
Commodities Gold, Silver Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Harper Ranch
Capsule Geology

The Mona showings are located 5 kilometres southwest of Darfield and 68 kilometres north of Kamloops, west of the North Thompson River and Highway 5. Logging and bush roads provide access to the property.

Mineralization consists of banded quartz veins with pyrite and rare pyrrhotite with minor chloritic alteration. One vein reaches 2 metres in width. The vein strikes 055 degrees with a vertical to steep west dip. A grab sample taken from dump material assayed 2500 ppb gold and 13.9 ppm silver (Assessment Report 14566).

The area of the Mona showings are underlain by metasedimentary rocks of the late Paleozoic Harper Ranch Group which include limestones, siltstones, shales, volcaniclastic sandstones and local volcanic rocks (Fieldwork 2000).

Numerous pits and trenches and some old adits are reported to be present on the property (Assessment Report 14566). In 1984, Lionheart Resource Corporation (Assessment Report 14566) completed a program of trenching (50 metres of vein was stripped and two trenches cut across it). They also completed a soil geochemical survey (498 samples analysed for gold and silver), VLF-EM survey and magnetometer survey.

Bibliography
GSC SUM RPT 1921 Part A
GSC MEM *363
GSC MAP 1278A
EMPR FIELDWORK 2000, pp. 1-30
EMPR ASS RPT *14566

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