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File Created: 18-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)
Last Edit:  18-Jul-2020 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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Name NORTH CHAMPION (UPPER ROAD), UPPER ROAD, NORTH CHAMPION Mining Division New Westminster, Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H056
Status Showing NTS Map 092H10W
Latitude 049º 30' 29'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 54' 09'' Northing 5486065
Easting 651850
Commodities Gold, Platinum, Palladium, Silver, Copper Deposit Types M05 : Alaskan-type Pt+/-Os+/-Rh+/-Ir
I : VEIN, BRECCIA AND STOCKWORK
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The North Champion (Upper Road) occurrence is located at an elevation of approximately 1400 metres and approximately 1.9 kilometres east of the junction of Champion Creek and the Tulameen River.

The area is underlain by ultramafic rocks of the Early Jurassic Tulameen Ultramafic Complex and metamorphic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group.

Locally, ultramafic rocks, primarily hornblende pyroxenite, host variable amounts of disseminated to massive pyrite, chalcopyrite, pyrrhotite, magnetite and malachite. Quartz veins in the area contain pyrite and minor chalcopyrite.

In 2016, Rain City Resources Ltd. completed a program of prospecting and rock sampling on then area as the Northern Champion property. Two rock samples (0451 and 0452) of mineralized quartz vein material yielded values of up to 0.841 gram per tonne gold, 0.546 gram per tonne platinum, 1.370 gram per tonne palladium, greater than 100 grams per tonne silver and 0.949 per cent copper, while 19 samples of sulphide bearing ultramafic rocks yielded from 0.103 to 0.660 per cent copper with elevated platinum and palladium values of up to 0.287 and 0.474 gram per tonne, respectively (MacIntyre, D. (2018-09-17): Technical Report - Northern Champion Mineral Property).

Bibliography
EMPR EXPL 1988-B71-B81; 2002-41-50, 2002-48,49; 2003-58
EMPR FIELDWORK 1987, pp. 281-294
EMPR GEM 1970-382
EMPR OF 1988-25
EMPR P 1992-6
EMPR EXPL 2001-42; 2002-48,49; 2003-58
GSC MAP 46A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 26; 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 6, pp. 399-425 (1969); Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
*MacIntyre, D. (2018-09-17): Technical Report - Northern Champion Mineral Property

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