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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Feb-2008 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name REG 2, AK 2 Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E072
Status Showing NTS Map 082E13W
Latitude 049º 46' 20'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 47' 49'' Northing 5517060
Easting 298619
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
L : PORPHYRY
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks, Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The REG 2 showing is located approximately 4 kilometres west of Peachland in a narrow creek valley.

The showing, which consists of a 7.5-metre long adit, has been the subject of a number of small work programs since the early 1960s. Prospecting, bulldozer stripping and hand trenching were carried out by R. Fulks and K. Fulks. Canadian Exploration Limited reportedly did some soil sampling and X-ray diamond drilling. Pine-Pacific Mines Limited also did some surface stripping and percussion drilling. It is not recorded who is responsible for the adit. Additional prospecting and sampling was carried out for C. Ashworth in 1988.

The showing is underlain by granodiorite of the Early Jurassic Pennask Batholith. Pendants of Triassic-Jurassic Nicola Group greenstone are found in the general area and in the immediate vicinity of the showing. Disseminated sphalerite, galena, pyrite and chalcopyrite in greenstone is exposed in a number of open cuts and trenches over an area of approximately 100 by 150 metres. Copper- stained (malachite?) granodiorite containing chalcopyrite as disseminations and as fine fracture fillings is also noted. The adit intersects a quartz vein 30 centimetres wide and two small shear zones. The quartz vein is milky white, strikes 030 degrees, dips 76 degrees southeast and contains traces of pyrite and galena. The shear zones average less than 45 centimetres in width, are exposed in the ceiling of the adit and pinch out rapidly downdip. They parallel the direction of the quartz vein, and contain up to 5 per cent disseminated pyrite, galena and sphalerite. A channel sample across a rusty 45 centimetre wide shear zone did not contain any significant values of gold, silver, lead, zinc or copper (Assessment Report 17959).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *16787, *17959
EMPR GEM 1988-C25
EMPR OF 1994-8
EMPR PF (Wilmot J.D. (1971-05-31): Report on the REG 2 and AK 2 Mineral Claims)
EMPR RGS 29
GSC MAP 538A; 15-1961; 1701A; 1712A; 1713A; 1714A; 1736A;
7686G; 8522G
GSC OF 409; 736; 1969
EMPR PFD 750, 993

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