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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  06-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name GALAXY, NOVA, FLY HILL, MARK, ED Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L064
Status Showing NTS Map 082L11W
Latitude 050º 41' 36'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 23' 41'' Northing 5618459
Easting 330868
Commodities Nickel, Copper Deposit Types M02 : Tholeiitic intrusion-hosted Ni-Cu
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

At the Galaxy showing, pyroxenite dikes and sills containing fracture fillings and disseminations of pyrrhotite and pentlandite, intrude Cretaceous? granitic rocks near the contact with metasediments of the Hadrynian and/or Paleozoic Silver Creek Formation.

In 1967, work performed comprised three bulldozer trenches for a total of 396 metres, stripping across a 60 by 91 metre area, an opencut 5.4 metres into bedrock, and 2 diamond-drill holes for a total of 152 metres.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1964-105; 1967-136
EMPR ASS RPT *2756
EMPR GEM 1970-319
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 180)
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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