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File Created: 15-Jun-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  23-Jun-2015 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BOOT Mining Division Fort Steele
BCGS Map 082G043
Status Showing NTS Map 082G05E
Latitude 049º 26' 11'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 115º 33' 50'' Northing 5476960
Easting 604118
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Ancestral North America
Capsule Geology

The Boot occurrence is located on a north- north east -facing slope, southeast of Haha Creek and at an elevation of approximately 1250 metres.

The lies on the west side of the Rocky Mountain Trench and is underlain by the Middle Proterozoic Purcell Supergroup. These consist of amygdaloidal basalts and fine volcaniclastics of the Nicol Creek Formation and quartzitic wacke or sandstone of the Sheppard Formation, overlain by stromatolitic dolomites and siltstone of the Gateway Formation.

Locally, a narrow, west- trending shear zone with quartz veins, siderite and hematite cuts an interval of fine dolomitic wackes of the Sheppard Formation. A few of the quartz veins also host specularite and minor chalcopyrite. The zone is exposed in historical trenches and in an adit, dating to the early 1900’s.

In 2008, a sample (Boot-2) assayed 0.121 per cent copper (Assessment Report 30133).

In 2008, Klondike Gold completed a program of rock and soil sampling, prospecting and geological mapping on the area as the Boot claims.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *30133
EMPR OF 1988-14
GSC MAP 11-1960
GSC MEM 336, pp. 43-52; 76

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