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MINFILE No  082FNE054
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Jan-2000 by Garry J. Payie (GJP)

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NMI
Name COTNOIR - FORS, POLARIS Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082F070
Status Showing NTS Map 082F09E
Latitude 049º 36' 36'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 116º 00' 46'' Northing 5495738
Easting 571321
Commodities Lead, Zinc, Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Cotnoir - Fors is underlain by siltstone and wacke of the Middle Proterozoic (lower) Aldridge Formation.

A showing on the east side of Pitt Creek consists of a quartz-calcite vein hosting chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite and minor arsenopyrite and sphalerite. About 90 metres to the south, a quartz vein occurs hosting galena and sphalerite.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 99, 3250, 3256, 3634, 4711, 5634, 8426, 9095, 9096
EMPR EXPL 1977-E47, 1978-E58, 1979-65
EMPR GEM 1971-405, 1972-53, 1973-67
GSC MAP 15-1957
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