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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  08-May-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name K, PRITCHARD Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L071
Status Showing NTS Map 082L12W
Latitude 050º 43' 03'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 48' 37'' Northing 5622178
Easting 301625
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

At the K showing, chalcopyrite, pyrite, malachite and bornite? occur sporadically in narrow quartz-carbonate veins and veinlets, up to 15 centimetres wide, which are associated with shears intersecting a fault striking between 045 and 090 degrees. Hostrocks comprise Upper Triassic and? Lower Jurassic Nicola Group andesite lava with interbedded tuff and minor argillite.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 1008, *2403, 2990
EMPR GEM 1971-434; 1972-81
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 178)
GSC P 48-1; 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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