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File Created: 13-Mar-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  30-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name MINT, LAWLESS CREEK Mining Division New Westminster, Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H056
Status Showing NTS Map 092H10W
Latitude 049º 32' 44'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 50' 31'' Northing 5490343
Easting 656109
Commodities Copper, Lead, Zinc Deposit Types I05 : Polymetallic veins Ag-Pb-Zn+/-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Mint showing is exposed in the canyon of Lawless Creek, approximately 600 metres north of the creek's confluence with the Tulameen River and 6 kilometres due west of the town of Tulameen.

The occurrence is hosted in a 60-metre-thick section of sericitic and chloritic schists (greenstone) of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group, dipping 30 to 35 degrees south. The schists contain "siliceous ribs" (veins (?)), 0.03 to 0.9 metre wide, mineralized with sparse pyrite and chalcopyrite and rare galena and sphalerite.

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 1937-D29
EMPR ASS RPT 27009, 30286, 31355
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294
EMPR OF 1988-25
EMPR PF (Hedley, M.S. (1937): Special Report on Britton Property (see 092HNE022))
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
EMPR PFD 8603

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