Pay Roll deposit, Moyie, Fort Steele Mining Division, British Columbia, Canadai

Regional Level Types
Pay Roll deposit	Occurrence
Moyie	Unincorporated Community
Fort Steele Mining Division	Division
British Columbia	Province
Canada	Country

The Pay Roll occurrence is located near the confluence of Negro Creek with the Moyie River, about 16 kilometres south-west of Cranbrook, British Columbia.

There is a description of the area on the British Columbia “Minfile” site, current to 2015 and selected information is quoted below:

“The area is underlain by clastic rocks of the Helikian Purcell Supergroup. The units are dominantly siliclastic sedimentary rocks of the Lower and Middle Aldridge formations.

The occurrence is a vein-type deposit hosted by quartzites of the Helikian Middle Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup). The Aldridge Formation quartzites are relatively flat-lying but with a gentle north dip.

The deposit consists of individual, or zones of, small quartz veins crosscutting the Aldridge Formation in a generally east direction and tending to dip about 65 to 75 degrees southwest. The veining is also associated with faulting. A quartz vein in the order of 3 to 5 centimetres wide is closely associated with a syenitic dike, and has been observed to carry visible free gold, pyrite, chalcopyrite and a lead telluride mineral identified as altaite. Tourmaline has been identified from a vein in the southern part of the showing.”

Further comments by Giles Peatfield regarding the occurrence;
The occurrence is variously known as Pay Roll, Pay-Roll, or Payroll. Minfile has settled on Pay Roll as the official name. There was very minor production reported – 16 tonnes of “ore” yielded 187 grams of gold and 715 grams of silver.

Comments by Giles Peatfield on some of the minerals reported from the locality:
Altaite: Reported by McEvoy (1902) and identified by Hoffmann (1902).
Dolomite: Pighin (1986) reported dolomite filling casts of selenite crystals, in drill core.
Garnet group: Pighin (1986) reported “pink subhedral spessartite (sic)”, in drill core.
All other minerals in the list were reported by Pighin (1986) following detailed logging of diamond drill core.

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Link to British Columbia Minfile:	082GSW037

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