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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  16-Jul-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name FK, PAT Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H059
Status Showing NTS Map 092H09W
Latitude 049º 35' 37'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 21' 39'' Northing 5496794
Easting 690720
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

This showing is 2.4 kilometres southeast of the confluence of Finnegan and Hayes creeks and 19 kilometres northeast of Princeton.

The FK occurrence is hosted in strongly fractured and altered granite of the Middle Jurassic Bromley batholith, possibly within the same northerly striking fault zone that hosts the Hematite occurrence (092HNE026), 1.8 kilometres to the north.

The dump of an old pit contains fragments of coarse-grained porphyritic granite with strong argillic alteration. Malachite occurs along fractures in most of the fragments. Minor specular hematite is disseminated through the granite.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3450, 4833
EMPR GEM 1972-125; 1973-138
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358; 91-2, pp. 87-107

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