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MINFILE No  082GNW042
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  17-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name OMINECA (L.5270) Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G061
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12W
Latitude 049º 38' 45'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 58' 30'' Northing 5499758
Easting 573996
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Omineca showing, quartz veins up to 0.6 metres in width are hosted by Cretaceous syenitic intrusions. The veins dip 45 to 60 degrees northwest and contain sparse blebs and stringers of chalcopyrite and pyrite within a quartz-calcite gangue.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1898-1020; 1913-423
EMPR OF *1988-14
GSC MAP 396A; 11-1960
GSC MEM 76, p. 147
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