Selling Silver Mines

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Name COMSTOCK-VIRGINIA, COMSTOCK (L.***7), VIRGINIA (L.***8), ERIE (L.***9) Mining Division Slocan BCGS Map Status Past Producer NTS Map **2F*4E Latitude *9�º *5\&#**9; *3\" N UTM *1 (NAD *3) Longitude **7�º *9\&#**9; *8\" W Northing ******1 Easting *****4 Commodities Silver, Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I*5 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn /-Au Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel Capsule Geology This group, consisting of the Comstock (Lot ***7), Virginia (Lot ***8), and Erie (Lot ***9) Crown-granted claims, is situated near the head of Long Creek. Workings, which are on the Comstock, consist of 3 short adits, *3 metres apart vertically. The middle adit, at elevation ***0 metres, is the only one on which work has been done in recent years. This adit, *6 metres in length follows a quartz vein, up to 0.6 metre in width, and wherever the vein widened small stopes about 3 metres in length were taken out. Such stopes occur at distances of 6.7 metres, *7.6 and *0.7 metres from the portal. No work had been done on this group since ***8, when in ***8 Mrs. Barbara Gilkev and ***** Gilkev, who originally bought the claims at a tax sale, interested J. Armes of Vancouver in the claims. Four men were employed on the property during part of the summer, and the portal of the middle adit was reopened. There is no record of any subsequent development, and in November the claims once more reverted to the Crown. Regionally, the area lies on the western margin of the Kootenay Arc, in allochthonous rocks of the Quesnel Terrane. In the vicinity of the occurrence, the Quesnel Terrane is dominated by the Upper Triassic Slocan Group, a thick sequence of deformed and metamorphosed shale, argillite, siltstone, quartzite and minor limestone. Rocks of the Slocan Group are tightly and disharmonically folded. Early minor folds are tight to isoclinal with moderate east plunging, southeast inclined axial planes and younger folds are open,