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File Created: 07-Apr-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)
Last Edit:  07-Apr-1986 by Larry Jones (LDJ)

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NMI
Name SPARKLE 4, METAL CREST Mining Division Kamloops
BCGS Map 082M003
Status Showing NTS Map 082M03W
Latitude 051º 01' 20'' UTM 11 (NAD 83)
Longitude 119º 26' 44'' Northing 5655142
Easting 328489
Commodities Lead, Silver, Copper, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
G06 : Noranda/Kuroko massive sulphide Cu-Pb-Zn
Tectonic Belt Omineca Terrane Kootenay
Capsule Geology

The property is underlain by rocks of the Cambrian to Ordovician Eagle Bay Formation consisting of metamorphosed felsic to basic volcanics, black argillite and minor quartzite and limestone.

The showing is a mineralized quartz-carbonate vein hosted by a cherty horizon within mafic metavolcanics. Mineralization consists of galena, pyrite, chalcopyrite and sphalerite in the quartz-calcite vein and pyrite, galena and magnetite in a 1.5 by 35 metre chert horizon.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1929-218
EMPR ASS RPT 13381
GSC MAP 48-1963
GSC MEM 296, p. 146
GSC OF 290; 637

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