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MINFILE No  082LNW065
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-May-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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Name BENCH Mining Division Kamloops, Vernon
BCGS Map 082L065
Status Showing NTS Map 082L11E
Latitude 050º 40' 00'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 07' 58'' Northing 5614928
Easting 349281
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Bench showing is located within the lower Paleozoic Tsalkom Formation (Mount Ida Group) which is comprised of chloritic phyllite and greenstone, with minor amphibolite, black phyllite, limestone, marble, conglomerate and serpentinite. GSC Open File 637 (Occurrence 188) indicates that it is a copper-lead-zinc showing. No other information is available.

Bibliography
EMPR FIELDWORK 1988, pp. 49-54
EMPR OF 1990-30
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; *637 (Occurrence 188)
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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