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MINFILE No  082LNW017
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  27-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name COPPER ISLAND Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L093
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14W
Latitude 050º 54' 32'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 24' 18'' Northing 5642448
Easting 330922
Commodities Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

Bright copper stain is observed on the south side of Copper Island where disseminated chalcopyrite is hosted in a 1.8-metre wide band of chlorite schist, near a fault zone. The hostrock is part of the Devonian and/or older? Woolford Creek unit of the Eagle Bay assemblage.

Copper Island is part of Shuswap Lake Provincial Park.

Bibliography
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC ANN RPT *1877-78, p. 98B
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296, p. 143
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 156)
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
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