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MINFILE No  082GNW026
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name EAGLE'S NEST Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G063
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12E
Latitude 049º 36' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 31' 54'' Northing 5496120
Easting 606082
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Foreland Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Eagle's Nest showing, a 1 metre wide quartz vein occurs within a Proterozoic Moyie Intrusions diorite sill near its contact with host Helikian Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) argillaceous quartzites. The vein carries small amounts of chalcopyrite and pyrite.

Bibliography
EMPR MAP 34
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 396A; 11-1960
GSC MEM 76; 207, p. 53
EMPR PFD 670296
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