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File Created: 16-Apr-1996 by Jay W. Page (JWP)
Last Edit:  16-Apr-1996 by Jay W. Page (JWP)

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NMI
Name BLUE, RT 9 Mining Division Greenwood
BCGS Map 082E067
Status Showing NTS Map 082E10W
Latitude 049º 37' 28'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 47' 24'' Northing 5498415
Easting 370723
Commodities Copper Deposit Types * : Unknown
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Overlap Assemblage, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The BLUE showing is located on the west side of the Kettle Valley approximately 8.25 kilometres north of the community of Christian Valley.

The showing occurs in porphyritic andesite and trachyte of the Eocene Marron Formation, Penticton Group. These are underlain by granite of the Cretaceous-Tertiary Okanagan Batholith.

The area has been explored since the early 1900s, with much of the work directed at the COPKET (082ENE011) skarn and vein mineralization 2 kilometres to the west. In 1985, G.V. Lloyd carried out a 2-hole, 100-metre diamond-drill program on the BLUE property for L.C. Card. In drillhole #1, occasional blebs of pyrite and chalcopyrite are noted between 10.7 and 49.9 metres depth. Fractures are coated with limonite and goethite. Similarly in drillhole #2, located approximately 1 kilometre to the south, minor pyrite and chalcopyrite blebs are noted between 6.7 and 29.3 metres depth. The drill core from drillhole #1 was not analysed; samples from drillhole #2 assayed trace amounts of gold and silver.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *14746
EMPR EXPL 1986-C37
EMPR OF 1994-8
EMPR RGS 29
GSC MAP 6-1957; 1701A; 1712A; 1713A; 1714A; 1736A
GSC OF 409; 736; 1969

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