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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  19-Jan-1992 by Peter S. Fischl (PSF)

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NMI
Name TULAMEEN Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H047
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E
Latitude 049º 28' 59'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 37' 59'' Northing 5483850
Easting 671436
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
L01 : Subvolcanic Cu-Ag-Au (As-Sb)
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Tulameen showing is situated on the east bank of the Tulameen River, 9 kilometres west-northwest of Princeton.

A small elongate stock of coarse-grained granodiorite and quartz diorite intrudes andesitic tuff and agglomerate, with minor rhyolite and porphyritic andesite, of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The stock trends northward for 380 metres and is up to 100 metres wide.

The volcanics show moderate to strong argillic alteration, while the stock exhibits minor chlorite and epidote alteration.

Sparse chalcopyrite and pyrite occur in quartz veins and irregular shears in the intrusive and volcanics, and as disseminations in andesitic tuffs, in the vicinity of the south end of the stock.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT *3357, 3655, 12676
EMPR GEM 1971-272
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)

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