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File Created: 24-Jul-1985 by BC Geological Survey (BCGS)
Last Edit:  25-Jul-2013 by Nicole Barlow (NB)

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Name ENTERPRISE (L.644S), CMAG Mining Division Similkameen
BCGS Map 092H028
Status Showing NTS Map 092H07E
Latitude 049º 17' 26'' UTM 10 (NAD 83)
Longitude 120º 32' 27'' Northing 5462666
Easting 678813
Commodities Copper Deposit Types L03 : Alkalic porphyry Cu-Au
Tectonic Belt Intermontane Terrane Quesnel
Capsule Geology

The Enterprise showing is located 650 metres east of the Similkameen River and 18.5 kilometres south of Princeton.

The area is underlain by the eastern facies of the Upper Triassic Nicola Group consisting of mafic augite and hornblende porphyritic pyroclastics and flows. These rocks are intruded by diorite and monzonite, locally pyroxenite and gabbro, of the Early Jurassic Copper Mountain and Lost Horse intrusions.

The Enterprise showing is hosted in andesite of the Nicola Group, along the southern contact with the stock. Mineralization is contained within a 70 to 80 metre wide embayment of volcanics formerly included with the Wolf Creek Formation, that projects 70 metres northwestward into diorite of the Copper Mountain stock (Copper Mountain Intrusions). The volcanics exhibit pervasive to stringer biotite-carbonate alteration, in addition to albitization.

Chalcopyrite occurs as disseminations and along hairline fractures in the altered volcanics. Pyrite is also present in trace amounts in areas of better copper mineralization. A 10-metre chip sample from a trench analysed 0.114 per cent copper, 0.038 gram per tonne gold and 0.4 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11617, Figure 5). Ten other chip samples, 3 to 5 metres long, analysed 0.0115 to 0.139 per cent copper, 0.004 to 0.115 gram per tonne gold and 0.1 to 0.8 gram per tonne silver (Assessment Report 11617, Figure 5). This showing was first trenched and drilled (58 metres in 1 hole) by Kalco Valley Mines Ltd. in 1966. Newmont Mining Corporation of Canada Ltd. carried out geological and geophysical surveys, and 141 metres of diamond drilling in one hole in 1970 and 1971. Geological mapping and sampling were also conducted by Aquitaine Company of Canada Ltd. and Kidd Creek Mines Ltd. between 1974 and 1983.

Targa Resources Inc. carried out geological and geochemical surveys on the property in 1987.

No significant work has been reported in the property area from 1987 to 2010.

In 2010, Anglo Canadian Mining Corp. carried out a program of 26.4 line kilometres of induced polarization and magnetometer geophysical surveys and 5732.4 metres of NQ-size diamond drilling in 22 holes. Highlights included vertical drillhole PR-11-21, which contained a 38-metre section grading 0.564 per cent copper (Assessment Report 33070).

Bibliography
EMPR AR 1913-425
EMPR ASS RPT *2846, 2847, 5480, 10956, *11617, 15854, *33070
EMPR BULL 59
EMPR EXPL 1975-E69,E70
EMPR GEM 1971-269,270
EMPR PF (Targas Resources Inc. (1987): Statement of Material Facts
(Prospectus), Vancouver Stock Exchange (see 092HSE029))
GSC MAP 300A; 888A; 1386A; 41-1989
GSC MEM 171; 243
GSC P 85-1A, pp. 349-358
CIM BULL Vol. 44, No. 469, pp. 317-324 (1951); Vol. 61, No. 673, pp.
633-636 (1968)
CJES Vol. 24, pp. 2521-2536 (1987)
Montgomery, J.H. (1967): Petrology, Structure and Origin of the
Copper Mountain Intrusions near Princeton, British Columbia;
unpublished Ph.D. thesis, University of British Columbia
V STOCKWATCH, Feb. 7, 2012

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