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File Created: 12-Mar-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  30-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name WELDEN 2, LAWLESS CREEK Mining Division New Westminster, Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H056
Status Showing NTS Map 092H10W
Latitude 049º 33' 18'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 50' 29'' Northing 5491394
Easting 656119
Commodities Copper Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Welden 2 showing is exposed on the nose and north flank of a small ridge, 220 metres northeast of Lawless Creek and 6 kilometres west-northwest of the town of Tulameen.

Trenching in rubbly siliceous greenstone of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group has exposed disseminations and blebs of chalcopyrite, together with malachite, over a surface area of 74 square metres. The greenstone is cut by at least one flat-lying shear.

Work History

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 1960-43,52
EMPR ASS RPT 30286, 31355
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

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