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MINFILE No 092HNE210

File Created:	10-Mar-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:	10-Mar-1992	by	Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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		NMI
Name	BADGER, MUR	Mining Division	Similkameen
		BCGS Map	092H056
Status	Showing	NTS Map	092H10W
Latitude	049º 32' 21''	UTM	10 (NAD 83)
Longitude	120º 55' 14''	Northing	5489473
		Easting	650442
Commodities	Copper, Gold	Deposit Types	M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
Tectonic Belt	Intermontane	Terrane	Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks

Capsule Geology

This copper showing outcrops on the west side of Grasshopper Mountain, 970 metres northeast of the confluence of Illal and Britton creeks and 11.5 kilometres due west of the town of Tulameen.

The occurrence is hosted in hornblende clinopyroxenite of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, a zoned Alaskan-type intrusive complex. The showing is 100 metres east of the contact with metasediments and metavolcanics of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

A 210-metre wide band of coarse pyroxenite contains disseminated blebs of chalcopyrite and pyrite. Selected grab samples assayed between 1 and 1.5 per cent copper and trace to 2.4 grams per tonne gold (Assessment Report 9381, page 2).

Bibliography

EMPR ASS RPT 128, *9381, 15803, 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, pp. 156-159; 243, pp. 33,34

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Findlay, D.C. (1963): Petrology of the Tulameen Ultramafic Complex, Yale District, British Columbia, unpublished Ph.D. thesis, Queen's University, 415 pages.