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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Jan-1994 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name VIC, TOR Mining Division Revelstoke
BCGS Map 082L098
Status Showing NTS Map 082L16W
Latitude 050º 58' 11'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 25' 49'' Northing 5647432
Easting 399575
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Vic occurrence area is underlain by high grade metamorphic rocks of the Precambrian-Paleozoic(?) Shuswap Metamorphic Complex consisting of gneisses and schists with interlayers of quartzite, marble and calcsilicate rocks. Narrow lenses of pegmatite occur along bedding planes and as dikes along joints and faults. Fine grained felsic to mafic dikes occur in northwest trending, late fractures.

Abundant pyrrhotite, minor pyrite and traces of chalcopyrite occur along the margins of marble beds and as lenses in mafic gneisses.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *2079, 2080, 2081
EMPR GEM 1969-338,339
EMPR OF 1990-30
GSC MAP 143A; 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 658
EMPR PFD 4792

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