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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  14-Feb-2008 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name CAMP HEWITT 12, ROHANNA, ZN Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E072
Status Showing NTS Map 082E13E
Latitude 049º 47' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 43' 04'' Northing 5519012
Easting 304397
Commodities Gold, Silver, Zinc, Lead, Copper Deposit Types * : Unknown
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The CAMP HEWITT 12 showing is located above the confluence of Trepanier and Law creeks, approximately 1 kilometre upstream from the mouth of Trepanier Creek.

The area is covered by rhyolite, trachyandesite and andesite of the Eocene Marron Formation, Penticton Group except in the Trepanier Creek valley where the underlying Triassic-Jurassic Nicola Group rocks are exposed.

The showing consists of irregular pods, lenses and disseminations of pyrite, sphalerite, galena and chalcopyrite in Nicola Group limestone. The Nicola Group rocks form a pendant which is underlain by the Early Jurassic Pennask Batholith.

Evidence of early work on the showing is a caved adit, possibly dating from the 1890s when the Camp Hewitt Mining and Development Co. was active in this area, or from the late 1950s when some stripping was carried out on the LAKEVIEW (082ENW020) showing to the west. The adit was driven northeasterly into a limestone outcrop and exposed a pod of massive sphalerite with a minor amount of galena. In 1965, King Resources Company carried out a prospecting and mapping program in the area, and in 1966 they followed up with a 4-hole, 62.6-metre diamond drill program. Hole number 2 was collared on a massive sulphide lens which proved to be only 4 centimetres thick; and only traces of sulphides were encountered after the first 0.46 metre. The other 3 holes did not intersect any mineralization of note. In 1972, Vega Mines Ltd. examined the showing.

A high-grade grab sample assayed 0.72 per cent copper, 4.9 per cent zinc, 2.24 per cent lead, 144 grams per tonne silver and 0.2 grams per tonne gold (Property File - Philp, R.H.D. (1972): Report on the ROHANNA, KEL and ZN Claims).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *673, *766
EMPR OF 1994-8
EMPR PF (*Vega Mines Ltd. (1972-04-17): Report on the Rohanna, KEL and ZN Claims; Westex Exploration Ltd. (1995-12-19): MEMO RE: Rohanna)
EMPR RGS 29
GSC MAP 538A; 15-1961; 1701A; 1712A; 1713A; 1714A; 1736A;
7686G; 8522G
GSC OF 409; 736; 1969
EMPR PFD 769, 939, 940

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