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File Created: 14-Apr-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  12-Jan-1987 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name WAD Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M003
Status Showing NTS Map 082M04E
Latitude 051º 02' 50'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 35' 04'' Northing 5658254
Easting 318848
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc, Silver, Gold Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by northeast trending, folded and metamorphosed mafic and intermediate volcanics, volcanoclastics and sediments of the Late Devonian to Early Mississippian age Eagle Bay Formation. These rocks are intruded by dykes and stocks of diorite, diabase, granodiorite and quartz porphyry.

The metavolcanics comprise a lower unit of mafic flows and breccias of basaltic composition intercalated with detrital sediment, chert lenses and intermediate volcanic rocks. These rocks are overlain by intermediate volcanic flows, breccias and volcanoclastics of andesitic to rhyodacite composition.

Structure in the area is dominated by a northeasterly trending overturned synform cut by several north trending right lateral faults.

Disseminated, veinlet and replacement pyrite, pyrrhotite and to a lesser extent chalcopyrite, sphalerite and galena mineralization are hosted by metasomatized mafic volcanic flows and breccias, and dioritic phases of the granodiorite stock. This showing appears restricted to the margins of a roof pendant of the mafic volcanic sequence within the intrusion.

A grab sample assayed 2.5 per cent copper, 0.5 per cent zinc, 0.1 per cent lead, 43.9 grams per tonne silver and 0.69 grams per tonne gold.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *13192
EMPR EXPL 1984-116
EMPR INF CIRC 1985-1, pp. 24,36
EMPR MAP 56
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC OF 290; 637
GSC P 75-1A
GCNL #208, 1984; #119, 1985
EMPR PFD 4597

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