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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  28-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name COPPER CHIEF, JEN, COPPER NUGGET Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L084
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14W
Latitude 050º 53' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 19' 42'' Northing 5639434
Easting 336222
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

Surface and underground work (pits, trenches, tunnels) were completed between 1928 and 1930 on the Copper Cup, Copper Chief (082LNW019) and Vimy (082LNW020) showings. The Copper Chief adjoined the Copper Cup to the east, and the Vimy adjoined the Copper Cup to the southeast.

At the Copper Chief showing, disseminated chalcopyrite occurs throughout a wide zone near a shear zone in west striking, north dipping (35 degrees) chlorite schist of the Devonian and/or older? Woolford Creek unit of the Eagle Bay assemblage.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-C217; 1930-A183
EMPR ASS RPT 2415, 3036, 3429, *13378, 15902
EMPR GEM 1971-434,435; 1972-81
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296, p. 143
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 157)
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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