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File Created: 14-Dec-1994 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)
Last Edit:  15-Dec-1994 by Dorthe E. Jakobsen (DEJ)

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NMI
Name OK, HAZ 5, DEAFIES CREEK Mining Division Vernon
BCGS Map 082L036
Status Showing NTS Map 082L06E, 082L07W
Latitude 050º 18' 39'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 118º 59' 21'' Northing 5575084
Easting 358369
Commodities Copper, Zinc, Gold Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The OK showing is located about 6 kilometres north of Lumby and 4 kilometres north of the Lumby (Chaput) deposit (082LSE006).

The Haz 5 claim was staked in 1984 and the OK claim was staked in 1985. These were optioned to Zicton Gold Ltd. in 1989 and they explored the claims and stripped a mineralized shear zone on the OK claim. In 1989 and 1990, 2 diamond drillholes were completed on the OK claim. In 1991, mapping and prospecting were conducted on the claims. In 1992, mapping and geophysical surveys were completed around the main shear. In 1993, a soil survey was conducted over the area and the northern part of the property was mapped.

The area is underlain by volcanic and sedimentary rocks of the Upper Triassic to Lower Jurassic Nicola Group. Locally, these comprise argillite, slates and greywacke and intruded by granodiorite of the Jurassic Nelson Intrusions. The bedding strikes east- southeast and dips shallowly.

A shear was stripped for 26 metres along strike. A 1-metre wide zone of rusty gouge, vein quartz and massive sulphides was exposed. The shear strikes 255 degrees and is approximately vertical. Mineralization consists of pyrite, limonite, chalcopyrite, arsenopyrite and sphalerite.

The 1989 drillhole on the shear zone intersected quartz veins with pyrite and disseminated sulphides in black argillite and, to a lesser degree, tuff. The best intersection, across 1.5 metres, assayed 0.65 gram per tonne gold and 0.1 gram per tonne silver from black argillite with pyrite (DDH OK89-1, Assessment Report 18932). The 1990 drillhole, about 49 metres from the 1989 hole, intersected traces of pyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite in quartz stringers and argillite (DDH Z90-2, Assessment Report 20363).

In 1991, a shallow trench followed the contact between argillite and granodiorite marked by shearing and quartz veining. This contact strikes 040 degrees, dips subvertically and is a undulating. The veins are gossanous, weakly calcareous and contain trace fracture- related pyrite and chalcopyrite. These contain up to 0.0089 per cent copper, 0.0012 per cent lead and 0.0102 per cent zinc (Assessment Report 21561). The wallrock argillite is gossanous, calcareous, sheared, occasionally brecciated and weakly magnetic (due to pyrrhotite). The argillite contains 2 to 3 per cent pyrite, 1 to 2 per cent chalcopyrite, 1 per cent pyrrhotite, trace bornite, trace covellite, trace malachite and possibly trace native copper. Samples of the argillite assayed up to 0.035 gram per tonne gold, 0.0853 per cent copper, 0.0030 per cent lead, 0.0164 per cent zinc and more than 15 per cent iron (Assessment Report 22554).

Mapping in 1993 failed to find economic mineralization in the main trench (Assessment Report 22954).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *18932, 20363, 21561, *22554, *22954, 23421
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
EMPR PFD 681568

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