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MINFILE No  082LNW043
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  26-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name SCIMITAR, NN Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L085
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14E
Latitude 050º 53' 28'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 09' 11'' Northing 5639924
Easting 348575
Commodities Copper Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

Diamond drilling at the Scimitar showing has intersected trace amounts of chalcopyrite in chlorite and sericite phyllite of the Hadrynian? to Paleozoic Eagle Bay assemblage.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 6591, *7055
EMPR EXPL 1977-E86; 1978-E99
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR GEM 1972-83
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637 (Occurrence 161)
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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