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File Created: 14-Dec-1994 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name DIONNE Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L048
Status Showing NTS Map 082L07E
Latitude 050º 26' 04'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 31' 51'' Northing 5588056
Easting 391284
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The Dionne showing is located near Sugar Lake on the south side of Sprockton Creek, about 37 kilometres northeast of Lumby.

In 1992, a prospecting and sampling program was conducted on the Dionne claim.

The area is underlain by metamorphic rocks of the Proterozoic to Paleozoic Kootenay Assemblage. These comprise gneiss, schist, pegmatite, quartzite and marble.

An outcrop contains pegmatite bands and a siliceous rock unit in gneiss. The siliceous material contains fine pyrrhotite and lesser amounts of pyrite or chalcopyrite. Assay values from a rock chip sample of this outcrop were low in base and precious metals (Assessment Report 22524). The pegmatite contains books of muscovite up to about 1 centimetre in size.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *22524
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 55-58; 1988, pp. 49-54; 1992, pp. 255-257
EMPR OF 1990-30
EMPR RGS 082L, 1976; 32, 1991
GSC MAP 7216G; 8502G
GSC MEM 296
GSC OF 637

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