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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  22-Apr-2018 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name PRINCESS, PRINCESS NO.2 Mining Division New Westminster
BCGS Map 092G056
Status Showing NTS Map 092G10W
Latitude 049º 35' 54'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 122º 58' 10'' Northing 5493974
Easting 502208
Commodities Copper, Molybdenum, Silver Deposit Types
Tectonic Belt Coast Crystalline Terrane Gambier
Capsule Geology

The Princess showing outcrops on the southwest bank of the Indian River (Roy Creek), approximately 17.5 kilometres southeast of Squamish.

The area is underlain by a sequence of andesitic volcanics of the Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group, near the south end of the Indian River roof pendant. The pendant is enclosed in Late Jurassic quartz diorite and diorite of the Tertiary to Jurassic Coast Plutonic Complex.

Locally, a narrow, silicified zone, up to 1 metre wide, is hosted in rhyodacite tuff. The tuff occurs within a northwest- trending sequence of rhyolitic to andesitic flows, tuffs and agglomerates of the Upper Jurassic to Lower Cretaceous Gambier Group, near the south end of the Indian River roof pendant. Mineralization consists of granular pyrite containing erratic blebs of chalcopyrite.

A grab sample from the area is reported to have assayed 3.12 per cent copper, 0.03 per cent molybdenum and 24 grams per tonne silver (Assessment Report 36023).

The area was originally staked in the early 1900’s and exploration programs including a short tunnel, now caved, and several open cuts were completed. In 1978, Texasgulf prospected and mapped the area. In 2015, NEK Canada Mining Group completed a program of rock sampling and geological mapping on the area.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1917-278
EMPR ASS RPT *6966, *36023
EMPR EXPL 1978-135
EMPR FIELDWORK 1980, pp. 165-184
EMPR PF (Claim Map Indian River Area)
GSC MAP 199A; 1069A; 1151A; 1386A
GSC MEM 335, pp. 47-54, 58, 60, 61
GSC P 89-1E, pp. 177-187; 90-1E, pp. 183-195, 90-1F, pp. 95-107
Armstrong J.E. (1990): Vancouver Geology, Geological Association of
Canada (Cordilleran Section)
Ditson, G.M. (1978): Metallogeny of the Vancouver-Hope Area,
British Columbia, M.Sc. Thesis, University of British Columbia
EMPR PFD 7987

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