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File Created: 21-Mar-2008 by George Owsiacki (GO)
Last Edit:  18-Apr-2008 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name PAC Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 082E014
Status Showing NTS Map 082E03E
Latitude 049º 10' 28'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 12' 16'' Northing 5449178
Easting 339335
Commodities Chromium, Nickel Deposit Types M03 : Podiform chromite
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Okanagan
Capsule Geology

The Pac showing is accessed via a gravel road from Highway 3 to the Mount Baldy ski area. Approximately 2 kilometres before the ski lodge a forest service road (Wapiti Creek Road) provides access to the claim area with 4-wheel drive vehicles.

The occurrence lies within a complex sequence of volcanic and metasedimentary rocks of the Permian to Carboniferous Anarchist Group. Altered ultramafic and serpentinite bodies are abundant within the Anarchist Group.

Rock samples were taken from a variety of mafic and ultramafic plutonic rocks that comprise anorthosite, serpentinized anorthosite, gabbronorite, troctolite, serpentinite, feldspathic peridotite and gabbro. Mineralization consists of finely disseminated (1-2 per cent) chromite, pyrrhotite and pyrite. Highest results from the sampling were 424 ppm copper, 2146 ppm chromite, 121 ppb platinum and 80 ppb palladium. Rock sample RS02-004 of a fine-grained troctolite with less than 1 per cent disseminated chromite analysed 1556 ppm chromite and 1561 ppm nickel (Assessment Report 27155).

In 2002, a reconnaissance rock geochemical survey was completed over the Pac 1-12 claims and seventeen samples were collected and sent for analysis by owners/operators A.M. Kovacs and G.R. Davis.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *27155
GSC MAP 538A; 539A; 37-21; 15-1961; 1738A
GSC OF 481; 637; 1505A; 1565; 1969

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