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MINFILE No  082LNW059
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 SABRE NORTH, SABRE Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L084
Status Showing NTS Map 082L14E
Latitude 050º 52' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 13' 46'' Northing 5638292
Easting 343149
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum Deposit Types G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

At the Sabre North showing, pyrite, chalcopyrite and molybdenite occur as disseminations on foliation planes and in fractures in chlorite phyllite, quartz chlorite phyllite and sericite phyllite of the Devonian Skwaam Bay unit of the Eagle Bay assemblage.

Trenching (61 metres), stripping (743 square metres) and 2 percussion-drill holes (152 metres total) were completed in 1972.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *7755
EMPR EXPL 1979-107
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 158)
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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