Boadicea claim, Robb Creek, Sandon, Slocan Mining Division, British Columbia, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Boadicea claim	Claim
Robb Creek	- not defined -
Sandon	- not defined -
Slocan Mining Division	Division
British Columbia	Province
Canada	Country

Boadicea occurrence is located near the headwaters Robb Creek, about 7.6 kilometres east-northeast of the famous mining town of Sandon, and 57 kilometres north of Nelson, British Columbia, in the Slocan Mining Division.
There is a brief description of the property on the British Columbia “Minfile” site, current to 1995. The portion of this that details the geological setting is quoted below:
“On the Boadicea property, the sedimentary rocks of the Slocan Group strike northwest and dip steeply southwest. The sedimentary sequence is intruded by a lenticular, medium grained, biotite granodiorite dike up to 200 metres wide. The dike underlies most of the central part of the Crown grant and the Slocan Group rocks are only exposed near the northern and southern contacts of the dike. The occurrence consists of a breccia zone within a band of limestone, slate and andalusite schist developed near the northern contact of the granodiorite dike. The breccia zone strikes 120 degrees, dips 85 degrees southwest and follows the contact between limestone and andalusite schist. It is 60 to 90 centimetres wide and contains coarse-grained galena, pyrite and minor sphalerite in discontinuous streaks 5 to 10 centimetres wide and disseminated in a gangue of quartz and siderite. The zone has been developed with at least four adits totalling 115 metres.”

Giles Peatfield comments:
For more on this deposit, refer to Cairnes (1935).
“Minfile” reports that in 1937 this small occurrence produced 8 tonnes of “ore” which yielded 401 ounces of silver and 2,407 kilograms of lead.

Comments on the Minerals Reported:
All minerals listed with the exception of jamesonite and tetrahedrite were reported by Cairnes (1935). I have added comments for the exceptions:
Jamesonite: This was reported initially by Warren (1948), who wrote that “Jamesonite was noted in only one sample disseminated in quartz and as needles projecting into a vug.” Berry and Thompson (1962) confirmed the occurrence by X-ray. See also Traill (1970, 1983).

Tetrahedrite subgroup: I can find no published information regarding tetrahedrite from this locality, but the Pacific Museum of Earth at the University of British Columbia has a collection of specimens (# 821), including two polished sections, from the Boadicea claim. These are probably the material studied by Harry Warren and R.M. Thompson.

Giles Peatfield
BASc. (Geological Engineering) University of British Columbia 1966.
PhD Queen's University at Kingston 1978.
Worked for Texas Gulf Sulphur / Texasgulf Inc. / Kidd Creek Mines - 1966 to 1985.
Vancouver based consultant 1982 to retirement in 2016

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Link to British Columbia Minfile:	082FNW023

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