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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Jun-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 082G5 Pb1
Name ST. EUGENE (L.666), ST. EUGENE MINE, MOYIE (L.669), LAKE SHORE (L.756), QUEEN OF THE HILLS (L.668), PETER (L.665) Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G021
Status Past Producer NTS Map 082G05W
Latitude 049º 17' 07'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 49' 36'' Northing 5459832
Easting 585328
Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The St. Eugene mine is located 1.5 kilometres south east of Moyie, east of Moyie Lake.

The deposit is hosted by quartzites and argillites of the Helikian Middle Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) and is contained within an east-west fracture zone, dipping 70 degrees south, which strikes across the axial plane of a large regional northeast plunging anticline. The St. Eugene mine is on the eastern limb of the anticline and the Aurora showing (MINFILE 082GSW023) is on the western limb across Moyie Lake.

The deposit consists of two important veins and a system of connecting veins which meet the main vein system at a low angle. Most of the ores occurred at or near such junctions in the form of irregular lenses. Very little displacement was noted along the vein as a whole and they are probably tensional fractures along the crest of a plunging anticline. It was reported that the sulphides (mainly pyrite, pyrrhotite and sphalerite) were slightly more abundant near the margins of the orebodies and that sphalerite showed no increase with depth. At the 305 metre level, the two main veins/fissures are 183 metres apart and converge downwards and towards the west.

Production from 1899 to 1929 totalled 1.5 million tonnes resulting in 182,690,658 grams of silver, 78,846 grams of gold, 113,034,479 kilograms of lead and 14,482,913 kilograms of zinc.

The deposit was recorded in 1893 by James Cronin, who was told of the ore by the Ktunaxa (Kootenai) people. St. Eugene Consolidated Mining Company conducted early development and in 1905 the mine was taken over by the Consolidated Mining and Smelting Company. In 1947, Saint Eugene Mining completed a program of geological mapping and a 10 line-kilometre ground magnetic survey on the area as the Moyie property. In 1990, Cominco completed a 16.5 line-kilometre ground electromagnetic survey on the area. In 2006, Saint Eugene Mining completed 697 line-kilometres of airborne combined magnetic and electromagnetic surveys on the area. In 2011 and 2013, Kootenay Silver completed programs of geological mapping, rock sampling, a 500 line-kilometre airborne magnetic survey and a 500 line-kilometre seismic survey on the area as the Silver Fox property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1893-1066; 1894-748; 1895-673; 1896-517,521; 1897-569,523; 1898-993,1010,1034; 1899-593,660; *1900-791,799,946; 1901-1006; 1902-131; 1903-93; *1904-104; 1905-24; 1906-132; 1907-163; *1909-88,154,272; 1910-90,243; 1911-121; 1912-131,322; 1913-121, 419; 1914-237,509; 1915-444; 1916-191; 1917-150; 1918-150,176,179, 188,390; 1919-115,148; 1920-116,140; 1923-301; 1924-186; 1925-226; 1927-266; 1928-281; 1929-295; 1937-E52; 1940-A82; 1947-A175; 1962-85; *1963-81; 1965-199; 1966-241
EMPR ASS RPT 1, 41, 1174, 20705, 28450, 32629, 34631, 34695
EMPR BULL *20, p. 17, Part II
EMPR FIELDWORK *1980, pp. 9-13; 1983, p. 24
EMPR OF *1988-14; 1998-10
EMPR PF (Crowsnest Pass Website (Apr.1999): St. Eugene Mine, 2 p.)
GSC EC GEOL 8
GSC MAP 1960-11
GSC MEM *76, p. 118; 207
Falconbridge File
Placer Dome File

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