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File Created: 15-Mar-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)
Last Edit:  30-Mar-2022 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name BRANDY, MOUNT RABBITT Mining Division New Westminster, Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H056
Status Showing NTS Map 092H10W
Latitude 049º 34' 07'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 50' 14'' Northing 5492916
Easting 656377
Commodities Copper Deposit Types D03 : Volcanic redbed Cu
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Brandy copper showing is 600 metres due south of the summit of Mount Rabbitt and 6 kilometres northwest of Tulameen.

A trench reveals sulphides and malachite occurring along fractures in andesite of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. A sample from the trench analysed 0.280 per cent copper (Assessment Report 16014, Appendix 1, sample GL-86-R-45).

A second trench, 470 metres north-northwest, exposes fine- grained andesite with 0.5-centimetre-wide quartz veins and a trace of pyrite. A sample analyzed 0.230 per cent copper (Assessment Report 16014, Appendix 1, sample 1086-BR-10).

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 ASS RPT *16014, 30286, 31355
EMPR PF (Fortress Resources Inc. (1988): Prospectus, Vancouver Stock Exchange; Prospectors Report 1995-49 by Thomas Lisle)
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 8606

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