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MINFILE No  082GNW070
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  20-Jun-1986 by Brian Grant (BG)

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NMI
Name RIGEL, POLARIS Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G061
Status Showing NTS Map 082G12W
Latitude 049º 37' 18'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 56' 54'' Northing 5497098
Easting 575959
Commodities Lead, Zinc Deposit Types E14 : Sedimentary exhalative Zn-Pb-Ag
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

At the Rigel showing, disseminated pyrite and pyrrhotite with sparse galena and sphalerite occur along bedding planes and as veinlets in fractures hosted by Helikian Middle Aldridge Formation (Purcell Supergroup) quartzites and argillites.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 5634, 7606
EMPR EXPL 1975-E42; 1977-E59
EMPR GEM 1972-53; 1973-85
EMPR OF *1988-14; 2000-22
GSC MAP 396A; 11-1960
GSC MEM 76
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