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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  30-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI 092H10 Au5
Name ENNISKILLEN, KIRBY, BRITTON Mining Division New Westminster, Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H056
Status Showing NTS Map 092H10W
Latitude 049º 32' 24'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 50' 48'' Northing 5489716
Easting 655785
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Enniskillen occurrence is located on the north bank of the Tulameen River, approximately 300 metres west of the mouth of Lawless Creek and 6 kilometres west-southwest of the town of Tulameen.

The occurrence consists of a strong shear zone striking 140 degrees and dipping 75 degrees southwest in a 9-metre-wide band of black argillite hosted in schistose andesite and greenstone of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

The shear contains about 0.3 metre of gouge and intensely sheared rock with disseminated pyrite and chalcopyrite, and widely scattered lenses of calcite, 5.0 by 2.5 centimetres in size.

Work History

The showing was trenched and followed underground with a 3-metre-long adit between 1949 and 1959.

In 2008, Discovery Ventures Inc. completed a 425 line-kilometre airborne magnetometer and electromagnetic (VLF-EM) survey on the area as the Rabbitt Mine property.

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1949-129; 1960-52
EMPR ASS RPT 27009, 31355
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294
EMPR OF 1988-25
EMPR PF (Anonymous (undated): 1 to 3600 scale plan of placer and mineral claims and workings (see 092HNE022))
GSC MAP 46A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 26; 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
Kerr, J.R. (2008-12-10): Technical Report on the Rabbitt Mine Property, Similkameen Mining Division, British Columbia
EMPR PFD 8529

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