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File Created: 08-Mar-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  18-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BLUE GOLD, Z, MOUNT BRITTON Mining Division New Westminster, Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H056
Status Showing NTS Map 092H10W
Latitude 049º 31' 12'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 55' 41'' Northing 5487327
Easting 649958
Commodities Zinc, Lead, Copper, Silver, Cadmium Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

This showing is located 100 metres southwest of the peak of Mount Britton, 900 metres northwest of the Tulameen River and 12.5 kilometres west-southwest of the town of Tulameen.

The Blue Gold occurrence is hosted in a northwest trending band of metavolcanics and metasediments of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group situated between the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex to the east and the Late Jurassic to Early Cretaceous Eagle Plutonic Complex to the west.

Rubble from an old pit is mineralized with coarse-grained pyrite and galena. A grab sample analysed 0.085 gram per tonne gold, 49.1 grams per tonne silver, 2.255 per cent copper, 2.9474 per cent lead, 5.742 per cent zinc and 0.1107 per cent cadmium (Assessment Report 17325, page 6).

In 2016, Rain City Resources Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on then area as the Northern Champion property. A rock sample (463) of quartzite metasediments hosting galena, sphalerite and pyrite assayed 12 grams per tonne silver, 0.452 per cent zinc and greater than 0.500 per cent lead (MacIntyre, D. (2018-09-17): Technical Report - Northern Champion Mineral Property).

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 2345, *17325, 27009
EMPR EXPL 1988-C105
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294
EMPR OF 1988-25
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)
*MacIntyre, D. (2018-09-17): Technical Report - Northern Champion Mineral Property

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