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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Nov-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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NMI
Name BOOT, PIP Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E022
Status Showing NTS Map 082E04E
Latitude 049º 13' 48'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 42' 46'' Northing 5456566
Easting 302507
Commodities Copper, Silver, Nickel Deposit Types G04 : Besshi massive sulphide Cu-Zn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Okanagan
Capsule Geology

The Boot showing is located east of Manuel Creek, 4 kilometres due north of the Blind Creek Indian Reservation and 7.5 kilometres northeast of Keremeos, British Columbia. In 1969, the Boot and Pip claims were owned by G.H. Haddrell.

The Boot showing lies within the Quesnel Terrane of the Intermontane tectonic belt. The Boot showing is hosted within a faulted package of Eocene volcanics of the Penticton Group. At the Boot showing these consist of three members of the Marron Formation. The lowest Nimpit Lake Member consists of tan trachyte and trachyandesite lava and minor breccia. The Nimpit Lake Member is overlain by the Kearns Creek Member. Vesicular pyroxene-rich andesite lava comprises the Kearns Creek Member. The Kitley Lake Member overlies the two lower members. It is composed mostly of trachyandesite lava with conspicuous glomerophenocrystic feldspar clots. To the immediate west are the Carboniferous to Triassic Shoemaker and Old Tom formations. These strata are underlain by Carboniferous to Permian Kobau and Anarchist groups. The Boot showing is hosted in andesitic flows of the Old Tom Formation. The flows are of variable strike and dip in the vicinity with a general north to northeast strike and steep dips. There is a weak banding in the andesite that appears to strike just east of north and dip 50 degrees to the west.

No description could be found of the type or character of mineralization at the Boot showing. In 1969, one 29-metre diamond- drill hole was drilled on the showing. Copper, silver and nickel mineralization were reported.

Bibliography
EMPR GEM *1969-297
EMPR OF 1989-2; 1989-5
EMPR PRELIM MAP *35
GSC MAP 341A; 538A; 539A; 541A; 15-1961; 1736A; 2389
GSC MEM 38; 179
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969
GSC P 37-21

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