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File Created: 10-Nov-1998 by Trygve Hoy (TH)
Last Edit:  01-Jan-0001 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)

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NMI
Name AP98-46 Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M003
Status Showing NTS Map 082M04E
Latitude 051º 04' 08'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 32' 08'' Northing 5660544
Easting 322357
Commodities Copper Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

A small pod of very rusty-weathering massive sulphides is exposed within amphibolite of Unit EBG1. The sulphide exposure is several metres in length and up to a metre in thickness. It comprises mainly pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite, with subrounded granular quartz eyes, in a dark green chlorite-amphibole-quartz matrix. Sulphides are typically banded, commonly swirled and cut by late, thin chalcopyrite veinlets. Small euhedral pyrite grains may overgrow the massive sulphides.

Assays of two samples of the massive sulphide layer returned 0.48 and 0.23 per cent copper, with low lead and zinc content and only trace silver and gold (EM Fieldwork 1998, p. 243).

Bibliography
EM FIELDWORK 1998, p. 243

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