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MINFILE No 092HNE202

File Created:	05-Mar-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	18-Jul-2020	by	Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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		NMI	092H10 Cu8
Name	COPPER QUEEN, QUARTZ	Mining Division	New Westminster, Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H056
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H10W
Latitude	049º 30' 40''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 53' 24''	Northing	5486416
		Easting	652740
Commodities	Copper	Deposit Types	M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel

Capsule Geology

The Copper Queen copper showing outcrops on the northwest slope of Olivine Mountain, 10 kilometres west-southwest of Tulameen.

Pyrite and chalcopyrite occur in pyroxenite of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex. The minerals are disseminated through the pyroxenite in small, distinct zones. Typical trench samples assayed 1 per cent copper with a trace of gold and nil platinum or chromite, while selected samples assayed up to 3 per cent copper (Minister of Mines Annual Report 1918, page 214).

In 2016, Rain City Resources Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on then area as the Northern Champion property.

Bibliography

EMPR AR *1918-214

EMPR ASS RPT 27009

EMPR EXPL 1988-B71-B81

EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294

EMPR OF 1988-25

EMPR P 1992-6

GSC MAP 46A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989

GSC MEM 26; 243, p. 101

GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358

CJES Vol. 6, pp. 399-425 (1969); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex,

Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's

University, 415 pages.

MacIntyre, D. (2018-09-17): Technical Report - Northern Champion Mineral Property