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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name SHU Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L093
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14W
Latitude 050º 57' 42'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 26' 31'' Northing 5648401
Easting 328519
Commodities Gold Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Shu property is underlain by a west to northwest trending sequence of greenschist facies rocks of the Lower Cambrian Johnson Lake unit of the Eagle Bay assemblage. Four main rock units are recognized and comprise chloritic phyllite including metavolcanic rocks, limestone, metachert?, and argillite with lesser sandstone and pebble to cobble conglomerate. Locally, there are dacitic and rhyolitic as well as feldspar porphyritic basaltic dikes.

Pyrite occurs as disseminated, oxidized, euhedral porphyroblasts in various rock types. Coarse to finely disseminated pyrite occurs in quartz sericite schists, quartz veins, chlorite schists, greenstones and fractures. Limonite staining and limonite-lined, cubic vugs are very common. Hematite and specular hematite occur to a lesser degree.

Chip sample 2773 taken from an altered, interlaminated siltstone with fine-grained sandstone analysed 1.3 grams per tonne gold. Sample 2774 is from a hematitic quartz sericite schist and analysed 0.61 gram per tonne gold (Assessment Report 15427, pages 30, 31).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 13380, 14620, *15427
EMPR OF 1999-2
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637
GSC P 48-4; 74-1A, pp. 25-30; 86-1A, pp. 81-88; 89-1E, pp. 51-60
CJES Vol.21 (Oct.1984), pp. 1171-1193
EMPR PFD 4419, 825391, 521188

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