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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  01-Apr-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name RIO, CAN Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M035
Status Showing NTS Map 082M06E
Latitude 051º 19' 30'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 11' 04'' Northing 5688233
Easting 347800
Commodities Tungsten, Copper Deposit Types K05 : W skarn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Monashee
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by Shuswap Metamorphic Complex rocks consisting of quartz-biotite schist with local bands of marmorized limestone.

A probably Cretaceous porphyritic biotite quartz monzonite intrudes the metasediments developing a garnet-diopside and scheelite-pyrrhotite-chalcopyrite skarn.

Mineralization occurs in numerous boulders up to 1000 metres along Canyon Creek. Similar mineralization occurs with a rusty granitic dyke at 1040 metres elevation.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *9169
EMPR EXPL 1980-141
EMPR GEM 1971-441
EMPR OF 1991-17
GSC MAP 48-1968
GSC OF 637

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