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File Created: 29-Nov-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)
Last Edit:  29-Nov-1996 by Keith J. Mountjoy (KJM)

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Name TOWER, FRENCH (L.2975) Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E012
Status Showing NTS Map 082E04E
Latitude 049º 06' 52'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 40' 36'' Northing 5443629
Easting 304681
Commodities Gold Deposit Types I01 : Au-quartz veins
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Okanagan, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Tower showing is located at about 1870 metres on the summit of Mount Kobau, 35 metres southwest of the radio communications tower and 1.5 kilometres northwest of the Mak Siccar occurrence (082ESW004). The showing was located during reconnaissance mapping in 1990 by Azimuth Geological Inc.

Regionally, the Tower showing is hosted by polydeformed regionally metamorphosed sedimentary and volcanic rocks of the Carboniferous to Permian Kobau Group. The aereal distribution of Kobau Group rocks is restricted by the Similkameen River to the west and the Okanagan fault to the east. Intruding these rocks are small granodiorite plugs of the Middle Jurassic Similkameen intrusion, lying along the Manery Creek fault. A pluton of the Similkameen intrusion is located 1.5 kilometres to the southwest. Post-Middle Jurassic pyroxenite is also found at the Mak Siccar deposit.

The Kobau Group rocks have been subdivided into up to nine units. However, these generally consist of chlorite schist, foliated greenstone and lesser quartz sericite schist. The Kobau Group rocks have a northwest trending schistosity as well as a major northwest trending fold axis. Shears cut these rocks in three directions: north-south on the eastern portion of the property, and northeast and northwest to the west.

The Tower showing consists of a podiform zone of silicified and pyritic greenstone or diabase. Limonite and manganese alteration is widespread in this zone which is transected by numerous north- trending linears. Sample 105770 taken from this zone yielded 0.18 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 20638).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1904-225,299; 1907-220; 1927-238; 1928-260; 1929-268; 1930-219; 1931-136; 1933-166; 1934-A25,D15; 1935-A25,D13,G47; 1938-A35; 1939-37; 1966-190
EMPR ASS RPT 8996, 15920, 20115, *20638
EMPR EXPL 1987, pp. B7-15
EMPR FIELDWORK 1983; 1988, pp. 19-25; 355-363
EMPR OF 1989-5
GSC MAP 538A; 539A; 37-21; 15-1961; 1736A
GSC MEM 79; 179, pp. 20-26
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969
GSC P 37-21
CIM Vol. 61, pp. 1326-1334
CJES Vol. 10, p. 1508
GSA Special Paper 218, pp. 55-91
Okulitch, A.V. (1969): Geology of Mount Kobau, unpublished Ph.D. Thesis, University of British Columbia, 141 pp.

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