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mations of the Cambrian and kter (9) Carib00 T& Snow- shoe formation ia comprised mainly of lenticular beds of micaceous quart site and pkllite , and minor limest one and limy pellite* The underlying of phyllite and argillite, either of which mar be bleached* Three lime- stone beds ham been recognized in the Snowshoe formation and designated the "Bakert', 1'309i1, and nJohn' sn. A11 have rela- tively peat EXPLORATION AND Aurun southeast slope Mout~tain, extending from the town Wells southwest- to the north and east by the Mosquito Cariboo groups (~ariboo Gold Quarta property). Gold-bearing quartz veins were found on Island lountain in the early i870ts, and in 1878 the Enterprise Company, a group of Barkerville miners, began ex-ploxation work on them. This company intended to haul ore to a 10-stamp mill in- stalled in the Kurt z and Lane shaft-house at the Beadows. The Island Mountain Quart% Mining and &filling Company, Limited Liability, was inoorporated in purchased and Aurw B.E. claim (Lot 10518) and, assisted by a loan of $20,000 from the British Columbia Government, a new mill was built. Several hundred tons of ore, mainlr from the Johns adit, was milled in 1890, and 15 to 20 tons of pyrite concentrates was old adits, property again undersound work was early exploration. Althou& several hun&md tons of ore was there is no of the amount of @ld produced, Surface workings for the most part are on the Aurm and Aurum West mineral claims. Attention was first drawn to these outomps by early prosgectors rho were able to recover €Pld HISTORY OF PRODUCTION 1 REFERENCES Recorded production from the Island Mountain mine for the periods 1934-1953 and 3.959-1967 totals 991,698 tons of ore. &om this ore 479,419 ounces of gold and 73,406 ounces of silver were recovered. The combined 2roduction from the Island Mountain and Cariboo mines for the period 1954-1958 totals 447,800 tons. From this ore 194,453 ounces of gold ant 19,703 ounces of silver Between 1934 (B.C. Open File Report 1989-22, p. 32). MAP REFERENCES Geological Map of the Antler Creek Area, Sc. 1":-:$nib - accomp. Bulletin 38, British Columbia Dept. of Mines, 1957- Map 2394, Barkerville Gold Belt, (6eol.) , Sc. lW:1 ,000 ft. - accomp. Memoir 181. Wap 93 ~/4 E, Wells, (TOPO.), Sc. 1~50,000. Aurum Pro.perty of Island Mountain Mines, Sc. lu$9O0 ft . - Beport of Minister of Mines, British Coluubia, 1934, p, C-23. Map 2046, Barkerville Area, (Geol.), Sc. 1"rl mile - accmp. Xemoir 149. Map 336 A, Willow River Sheet, (Geol.), Sc. 1"- = 1 mile, G.S.C. 1938. Brown, A. Sutherland; District, British Bulletin No. 38, pp. 82-85, British Columbia hpt. of Mines, 1957. Comp./Rev. By Date Holland, Stuart S. ; Island Mountain Unes; Report of Ninister of Mines, British Columbia, 1950, pp. 102-106. Benedict, P.C.; Structure at Island Mountain Mine, . . ; Transactions Vol. 48, pp. 755-770, Canadian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy, 1945. DCM 11-73 Benedio-t; , P. C, ; Island Mountain idins ; Structural Geology of Canadian Ore Deposits, Jubilee Volume, of Mining and Igetallurgy. Hanson, G.; Barkerville Gold Belt, Cariboo District, British Columbia; Memoir 181, pp. 19-22, Geol. Surv. of Canada, 1937. DWCR 08-86 Guiguet, Marcel; Cariboo Xiner and Oil Review; Vol. 34, No. 7, pp. 37-44, July 1961. JL 10-90 Davis, M.G.F.; Preliminary Report on the Barkerville Gold Belt on Island Nountain, B.C. ; Preliminary Paper 37-15, Geol. Sum. of Canada, 1937. Reports of Hinister of' hfines, British Colwnbias 1886, P. 232; 1887, P- 257; 1890, P. 361; 1897, P. 4753 1902, p. 111; 1903, p. 66; 1925, p. 148; 1926, p. 173; 1927, P- 171; 1928, PO 195; 1933, P- 122; 1934, PO C-22; 1935, P- 6-43? 1937, P* C-33j 1938, p. C-46; 1939, P- 70; 1940, P- 56; 19419 PO 56; 1943, PO 60; 1944, P* 543 1945, P* 793 19469 PO 90; 1947, P* 112; 1948, p. 86; 1949, p. 102: 1951, p. 120; 1952, p. 110; 19539 P* 96; 19549 P* 97; 19559 P* 31; 1956, P- 31; 1957, P- 143 1958, 143 1959, PO 22; 1960, p. 15; 1961, p. 19; 1962, p. 19; 1963, P. 38; 1964, P. 65; 1965, p. 193; 1966, p. 120; 1967, p, 121. Mineral PolicH Sector; , Corporation Filess ttIsland Mountain ines Company, Limited"; "Cariboo Consolidated Gold Mines, LimitedN "Reward Mining Company, Limitedt1; "The Cariboo Gold Quartz Kining Cornnany, Limitedt1; tiCoseka Resources Limited" ; ftoJharf Resources Ltd. " (con't reverse card 2) Island Hountain Xines - by The Staff: The Xiner, August 1938, PP. 54-62. Mines Branch, Ottawa; Investigations in Cre Dressing and Metallurgy; 1934, Rept. no. 748, (~nvest. No. 581), pp. 6-15. OAT &a;/,/ see reverse Card 2 . . . . REFEBENCES (continued) I Galloway, John D.; Lode Gold Deposits of British Colmbia; Bulletin 1, 1932, p. 62, British Columbia Dept. of Bine s . Johnst on, W.A. , and Uglow, W. L. ; f lacer and Vein Gold h- posits of Barkerville, Cariboo District, British Columbia; Memoir 149, p. 206, Geol. flrrv. of Canada, 1926. Campbell, R.B., Xountjoy, E.W., Young, P.G.; Geolcgy of BBcBride Map-Area, British ~olmbia (unpublished; G. S. C. Mineral Policy Sector; Corporation Ltd."; Gold Mines "Lyon Lake Mines Limited". Lund, Reserves in British Columbia, British Columbia Energy, Mines Petroleum Resources, Open File 1989-22, 3. I3TSTOBY t?F ExPLmTIm 4333 DmL0-m (continued) Sompany,Limited, in June 1972 amalgamated with Coseka Besources Limited under the latter name. Coseka in Jbbruarjr 1973 incor- porated a wholly owned subsidiary, fianch &;ploration Limited, to receive all its mineral property interests. In March 1973 French Ekploration amalgamated with 'dllharf Resources Ltd. under the name Wharf Besources Ltd.; Coseka Resources Limited was zllotted 80.4% of the issued shares of kVharf liesources. A ?rogram of diamond and percussion drilling in 1980-81 was carried out mainly on the adjacent Cariboo property. By a February 1985 agreement with Wharf Resources, Mosquito Zreek Gold Mining Company Limited acquired 100% interest in the ?roperty from Mosquito =am then dropped Mosquito Consolidated ;old In 1988, Lake Mines Limited 50% interest zxploration. Ore drive from the Mosquito Mine property intersected old Island Mountain