Extract from MINFILE No 092HSE052
Name: MISSION, FLINT, NEWT and BLITZ, MOUNTAIN VIEW, SKYLINE
Development status: Prospect
The Mission prospect is located on a south-facing slope at the headwaters of Jamieson Creek, 4 kilometres southwest of Hedley.
Significant mineralization is contained along three principle shear zones, the Barnes, Walker and Winkler zones.
A chip sample taken from the Mission pit (Barnes zone?) assayed 0.17 gram per tonne gold and 32.6 grams per tonne silver across 3.0 metres (Assessment Report 9222, drill hole plan, sample 2). A selected grab sample from the Barnes zone contained 6.9 grams per tonne gold, 686 grams per tonne silver and 10.8 per cent zinc (Minster of Mines Annual Report 1936, page D12, sample 4).
One drill core sample analysed 0.31 gram per tonne gold, 40.8 grams per tonne silver and 1.75 per cent zinc over 0.61 metres (Assessment Report 9222, Hole 80-2, 214.5-216.5 feet).
The Blitz showing occurs 4.7 kilometres southeast of Whistle Creek, 7.5 kilometres southwest of Hedley.
Thinly-bedded black argillite, with minor interbedded limestone, tuff and cherts of the Upper Triassic Stemwinder Mountain Formation (Nicola Group) outcrops atop a north-trending ridge between Pettigrew Creek to the west and various tributaries of the Similkameen River to the east. These sediments are locally veined and flooded with quartz.
Pyrite, arsenopyrite and chalcopyrite occur in zones of silicification and quartz flooding. Anomalous gold values were obtained from siliceous argillite containing disseminated pyrite and arsenopyrite, exposed in several old trenches dating back to the 1930s. Samples R83519 and R83518 analysed 3.53 and 2.69 grams per tonne gold respectively (Assessment Report 15441, page 7).
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