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MINFILE No  082LNW079
File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  07-Jun-1995 by George Owsiacki (GO)

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NMI
Name ROCKY POINT Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082L082
Status Showing NTS Map 082L13E
Latitude 050º 51' 35'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 39' 02'' Northing 5637573
Easting 313465
Commodities Bismuth Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

At the Rocky Point showing, irregular quartz veins up to 15 centimetres wide, contain large prismatic crystals of bismuthinite. The hostrock is granitic gneiss of the Ordovician Little Shuswap orthogneiss of the Mount Ida Group. The granite at the showing contains large twinned orthoclase crystals.

Bibliography
EMPR PF (General File - Dawson, G.M. (1898): Geology map of Shuswap Sheet)
GSC ANN RPT *1877-78, p. 101B
GSC MAP 1059A
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 481; 637
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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