The River Jordan Lead Zinc Revelstoke Mining Division, Deposit, B. C.

- Organization:
- Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum
- Pages:
- 5
- File Size:
- 2846 KB
- Publication Date:
- Jan 1, 1961
Abstract
A relatively unexplored lead zinc deposit lies about 12 miles northwest of Revelstoke, B.C., in the highly metamorphosed Monashee Group of rocks of the Shuswap Terrane, Precambrian in age. Host rocks are of sedimentary origin and consist of gneisses, schists, marbles and quartzites with intermediary types. The marbles and quartzites provide good horizon markers. Using these it is possible to interpret the controlling structure which is a syncline overturned to the north, dipping south at about 45°, and plunging east at about 12°. The syncline is truncated at about halfway of its length on a peak on the west side of which a partial cross section together with superimposed minor folds may be seen. The quartzites and the two marble beds may be traced over much of the structure. There are two lodes, above the marble and below the quartzite, which converge eastward and which are the exposed edges of the same host bed -an impure limestone.
Citation
APA:
(1961) The River Jordan Lead Zinc Revelstoke Mining Division, Deposit, B. C.MLA: The River Jordan Lead Zinc Revelstoke Mining Division, Deposit, B. C.. Canadian Institute of Mining, Metallurgy and Petroleum, 1961.