Bet Group, Shuswap Lake area, Kamloops Mining Division, British Columbia, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Bet Group	Occurrence
Shuswap Lake area	- not defined -
Kamloops Mining Division	Division
British Columbia	Province
Canada	Country

The BET group is located on Crowfoot Mountain, about 11 kilometres north-northwest of Magna Bay on Shuswap Lake, or 40 km north of Salmon Arm, British Columbia. The group comprises some 43 occurrences.

There is a brief description of the occurrence on the British Columbia “Minfile” site, current to 2012. Excerpts are quoted below:
“The property is underlain by Devonian age chloritic schists and minor limestone, that are probably equivalent to the Eagle Bay Formation. Foliation in the schist strikes 055 to 085 degrees and dips 42 degrees north. The rocks are intruded by diorite dikes.

Mineralization occurs as replacement of limestone and marble bands. A sample of ore assayed 28 per cent lead, 17 per cent zinc, 2400 grams per tonne silver, and trace gold (Assessment Report 5133).

The area was originally explored from 1927 to 1932 with the construction of several pits, shallow shafts and adits. In the 1960's and early 1970's various companies performed programs of geochemical and geophysical surveys.”

Comments by Giles Peatfield regarding the locality:
Over the years parts of the property have gone by several names, among which are Bet, Saul, Fluke, Evelyn and Venus. Work in the 1980’s was concentrated on the Silver Weasel claims.

Comments by Giles Peatfield on the minerals reported from the locality:
Cassiterite?: This is tentatively suggested for the locality. Robinson and Eastwood (1965) tried to isolate cassiterite, which was suspected to occur, but were not able to do so. They commented that “However, the response to attempted concentration suggests that a considerable part of the tin occurs as cassiterite.” Further to this, Leitch (1964) quoted that “Research work by Dr. G. E. P. Eastwood at the Dept. of Mines, Victoria , on the the possible presence of cassiterite in the ores suggested, from indirect lines of evidence, that cassiterite was in fact present in the samples submitted.” This information was given privately to the . . . holder of the claims, Mr. Brian Thompson, in which Eastwood went into considerable detail as to the methods he employed.

Graphite: Reported by Leitch (1964) as a constituent of some of the metamorphosed pelitic rocks.

Hematite: Reported by G. E. P. Eastwood as recovered during his search for cassiterite – see note above.

Magnetite: Reported by Leitch (1964) in diorite dykes.

Stannite: This was identifiedby Thompson (1953) who described “Patches of stannite up to 1 cm. in size may be seen in a groundmass of galena, sphalerite, pyrite, minor chalcopyrite and vuggy white quartz.”

References

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Link to British Columbia Minfile:	082M 104

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