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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  23-Nov-2017 by Karl A. Flower (KAF)

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NMI
Name NEV, RAVEN, CONDOR Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H027
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E
Latitude 049º 17' 33'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 39' 29'' Northing 5462611
Easting 670283
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L04 : Porphyry Cu +/- Mo +/- Au
K01 : Cu skarn
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Nev showing outcrops along the southeast bank of Whipsaw Creek, approximately 21 kilometres southwest of Princeton.

The area is underlain by volcanic rocks of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group with outcrops of andesitic volcanic rocks of the Eocene Princeton Group over higher elevations.

Two zones of fracture-controlled quartz-calcite veins occur in strongly sheared chlorite schist, limestone and calc-schist of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group. The two zones are 280 metres apart and 70 to 100 metres in width. The veins are mineralized with pyrite and traces of chalcopyrite. In 2014, rock samples yielded anomalous copper values up to 0.018 per copper (Assessment Report 35488).

A second showing is reported, approximately 80 metres to the northwest, and consists of narrow quartz veinlets with traces of chalcopyrite hosted by a foliated chlorite schists. In 2014, rock samples yielded anomalous copper values up to 0.023 per copper (Assessment Report 35488).

A stock of gabbro, 300 metres wide, intrudes dioritized andesite of the Nicola Group, approximately 500 metres to the south. The stock contains traces of magnetite and chalcopyrite.

A third anomalous zone, referred to as the Raven area, is located approximately 500 metres to the north east. Locally, weak stock-works of quartz-carbonate veining with trace pyrite are hosted by strongly iron-carbonate-silica altered argillites and limestones. In 2014, rock samples yielded only up to 0.013 per cent copper (Assessment Report 35488).

In 1972, Argilis Exploration completed a program of geological mapping and soil sampling on the area as the Nev claims. During 2008 through 2014, Goldcliff Resources completed programs of prospecting, geochemical sampling, various airborne and ground geophysical surveys and four diamond drill holes, totalling 727.87 metres, on the area as part of the Tulameen property.

Bibliography
EMPR ASS RPT 3939, 33626, *35488
EMPR GEM 1969-288; 1972-119
GSC MAP 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
EMPR PFD 21798

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