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File Created: 25-Mar-1988 by Laura L. Coughlan (LLC)
Last Edit:  18-Nov-1991 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name RED TOP, RED TOP FR. (L.36S) Mining Division Osoyoos
BCGS Map 092H040
Status Showing NTS Map 092H08E
Latitude 049º 21' 18'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 02' 40'' Northing 5471123
Easting 714622
Commodities Gold, Copper Deposit Types K04 : Au skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel, Plutonic Rocks
Capsule Geology

The Red Top showing is 1.9 kilometres northeast of Highway 3, 1.75 kilometres northwest of Cahill Creek and 2.5 kilometres east of Hedley.

The showing is hosted in the Sunnyside limestone member of the Upper Triassic Hedley Formation (Nicola Group). The limestone is cut by hornblende porphyry sills of the Early Jurassic Hedley Intrusions in the vicinity of the showing.

Calcium silicate skarn is developed over a 30 by 20 metre area. The skarn is mineralized with arsenopyrite, pyrrhotite and chalcopyrite. A sample assayed 0.5 gram per tonne gold, 0.6 gram per tonne silver, 0.004 per cent copper, 0.6514 per cent arsenic, 0.003 per cent bismuth and 0.081 per cent strontium (Assessment Report 16400, page 18, assay certificate, sample 1061). A second sample assayed nil gold, 1.6 grams per tonne silver, 0.024 per cent copper, 0.155 per cent arsenic, nil bismuth and 0.026 per cent strontium (sample 1063).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1906-254; 1907-220
EMPR ASS RPT 14879, *16400
EMPR EXPL 1982-176; 1986-C210
EMPR FIELDWORK 1985, pp. 101-105; 1986, pp. 65-79; 1987, pp. 59-80
EMPR OF 1987-10; 1988-6
EMPR P 1989-3, pp. 19-35
GSC MAP 568A; 888A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 2; 243
GSC OF 2167, pp. 59-80
GSC SUM RPT 1929, pp. 198A-252A
CIM Trans. Vol. 44, pp. 524-590 (1941); Vol. 48, pp. 27-68
CJES Vol. 9, pp. 1632-1639 (1972)

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