Latitude: 50°8'53"N
Longitude: 119°33'21"W
The White Elephant showing is located 25 kilometres west- southwest of Vernon, north of Shorts Creek.
A quartz vein or lens in granodiorite hosts gold, silver, tungsten, bismuth and tellurium. The highly fractured and faulted quartz vein strikes northeast and dips 60 degrees northwest. The vein, greater than 10 metres thick, is traceable on surface for at least 30 metres. A pod of massive pyrrhotite, up to 4 metres thick, occurs at the footwall contact, although the best gold values occur in lenses and stringers some distance from the vein wall. Pyrrhotite, pyrite, chalcopyrite and tetradymite (gold-bearing bismuth telluride) occur as lens-like bodies with the vein. Stringers and segregations of bismuth telluride, free gold and scheelite are also reported. Ore-shoots are up to 7.5 metres thick and 15 metres long. Underground workings include a 91-metre inclined shaft with four levels of development to a depth of 60 metres.
In 1921, a 2-metre shaft had been completed and in 1922 about 264 tonnes of mineralized rock were shipped producing 5,257 grams of silver and 13,468 grams of gold. In 1924, Okanagan Premier Mines Ltd. extended the shaft to 30 metres and drove a 60-metre crosscut. In 1928, Pre-Cambrian Mines Ltd. continued underground exploration and in 1929, mining from the pyrrhotite lens produced 27 tonnes of pyrrhotite concentrate, containing low gold values. Production from the quartz vein during the period 1933-35, totalled 4882 tonnes and produced 4,292 grams of silver and 49,702 grams of gold.
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